Nigerian minors arriving in Italy in boats saved from prostitution racket, 5 stops in Ragusa – The Republic

A Pozzallo the cops have noticed right away: a small group of Nigerian girls, all minors, some of which thirteen. Frightened but absolutely quiet, with precise instructions on what to do just landed in Sicily.

It ‘been with the help of another Nigerian girl, landed a few years ago and now performer inserted stably in the investigative team, that investigators of the Dubrovnik squad have managed to save from the street dozens of girls ended up in the hands of the route that runs the prostitution racket and stop four of the five members of that people considered that the prosecutors in Catania believes a transnational conspiracy devoted to trafficking human beings.

Sco and Ragusa Mobile Team, in collaboration with colleagues from Turin, they arrested Evans Aghayerinmwinre, Nigerian of 33 years, and three “maman”: Susan Igbinosun Friday, 27, Patience Uwa Omoregie, 50, and Faith Omorodion, 44 years.

It ‘was thanks to ‘mediation of the interpreter that a Nigerian migrant very young, just 14 years, has convinced them to cooperate and tell his terrible experience. Recruited in his village along with other dozens of girls from traffickers, “they sold” by their families, were departing from Nigeria convinced of experiencing a better future, made of studies and works as a baby sitter. Nothing had asked if a “ransom” the next 400 €. To “protect them from evil spirits”, all had undergone voodoo rites: cutting a lock of hair, the pubic hair and nails with the oath according to the ancient African ritual “ju-ju.”

to the girls said: “These parts of your body will help us to pray for you, but you remember that if you do not you will honor your debts die.” And then the threats were repeated to families. The girl who first collaborated was immediately taken by the police in one of the hotels included in the national program of the anti-trafficking law. Shortly before leaving the policemen handed a note with the phone number of one of the “

“This number I had to learn by heart: I was told that once I arrived in Italy had to contact this woman and that she would help me prelevandomi right at the city landing “. From here departed the investigation that led to the issuance of five catches. The organization has been operating in Libya, Nigeria and Italy. Nigeria takes the procuring of girls subjected to voodoo rites, Libya hosts the “connection man” with Italy and in our country the organization’s emissaries take charge of the Nigerian

and forcing them into prostitution. It happens very often that the victims, to avoid obligations to pay money for their redemption, will themselves become “maman” in order to pay off the debt without prostitution.

The surveys have identified the criminal network that from Sicily He wore girls between Torino and Brescia. The girl who first agreed to cooperate, it is now safe, and works in a pizzeria in Sicily.

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