Joint operation targets sex traffickers
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POLICE in Spain, France and Paraguay have arrested around 14 people and freed up to 15 women as part of a joint operation against sex trafficking.
Spanish police yesterday said nine people were arrested in the northern city of Pamplona on sex trafficking charges and liberated four exploited Paraguayan women.
They said the operation was launched after one of the victims dialed the Spanish help hotline against human trafficking back in 2015.
The raid was a joint effort involving authorities in France and Paraguay, who also made arrests and freed women in simultaneous police operations.
They didn’t specify when the arrests were made, or when the women were liberated.
Among those detained in Pamplona were three of the alleged ringleaders of an international criminal organization based in Ciudad del Este near Paraguay’s border with Brazil and Argentina, police said.
They said the organization had a family clan structure and preyed on women eager for a better life in Europe.
They allegedly sought out their victims and promised them jobs in France and Spain.
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