Gothenburg, Sweden, Sweden
Police in Gothenburg have detained three men on suspicion of trafficking Romanian women into Sweden for sexual exploitation. The men are under suspicion for trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and aggravated pimping. The men were brought in after a raid on several locations in the greater Gothenburg area carried out by the county police’s special unit for serious organised crime. The sex crimes have mainly been carried out in the Rosenlund area of the city, which is generally associated with street prostitution. The police operation was launched as a result of lengthy surveillance investigations and according to the prosecutor there are at least ten women that have been exploited by the men. The police declined to speculate on how the investigation would develop but on Wednesday said that they do not rule out further arrests. So far this year, the police have reported 170 incidents of sex purchasing in Gothenburg.
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