Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Marche (2009)

A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Marche, Italy.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

The arrests follow a police bust of a drug trafficking network in April, in which drugs were smuggled from Madrid in Spain to the Italian regions of Piedmont and Marche by using drug 'mules', who were often the women forced into protitution. The suspects were arrested.

Response and intervention

They arrested all the suspects

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