This is what is called a hell of a net. The international criminal police organization, Interpol, communicated this Friday on a vast operation in human trafficking networks that would have saved nearly 500 alleged victims and arrested nearly 200 suspects in Africa and Europe.
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We are talking here about 24 countries between the two continents and in particular South Africa, Kenya, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Tunisia, or even Spain and Greece.
Forced labor in plastic or blanket factories
Of the 195 arrests made, 88 people were arrested for “human trafficking” and 63 others for “smuggling”. The other suspects arrested were for “falsification” of documents, “theft”, “crimes and offenses” in terms of narcotics and damage to the environment, according to the same source.
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For example, a hundred victims in Sudan were pulled out of the clutches of more than two dozen traffickers, some of whom tried to lead their victims to the Middle East, and others exploited children in plastic factories. A 10-year-old girl, doomed to forced labor in a house in Kenya, was also found.
In South Africa, five Chinese were arrested at a blanket factory, freeing 17 Malawian nationals. They were reportedly forced to work 15 hours a day without food or breaks, confined to the warehouse where they slept on the floor. They said they were victims of physical violence there.
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