Those arrested, after appropriating their passports, forced them to practice prostitution until they were returned 5,000 euros
Agents of the National Police have released four victims of sexual exploitation in a villa in the Madrid town of Pozuelo de Alarcón and have arrested three people for committing a crime of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation, the Higher Headquarters of the Madrid Police in a press release.
Those arrested, two men and three women, held four victims inside the house and after taking away their passports, forced them to practice prostitution until they paid a debt of 5,000 euros.
The police investigations began at dawn last Thursday, when the agents learned that a woman could be being sexually exploited in a villa in Pozuelo de Alarcón.
Immediately, steps were taken to confirm the facts, finding out that the person who was holding her against her will and forcing her into prostitution, also claiming the debt of 5,000 euros, was a woman who would land at the Airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid on a flight that was to arrive that same day.
Given the seriousness of the situation, the researchers established two devices. First, three people were arrested at the airport, after determining their presumed participation in the criminal organization dedicated to trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
At the same time, during the police surveillance carried out in the villa, they detected the departure of a woman, who was immediately intercepted by the agents, who interviewed her.
He told them that he was practicing prostitution against his will until the debt he owed to an individual, manager of the house, was paid off.
A short time later, the agents observed how this man went outside, and he was arrested. Next, his partner was arrested, also at the doors of the house.
After releasing the first victim, the officers tried to rescue the rest of the women who were still inside the chalet. Finally, they managed to free three more girls, all of them victims of this criminal organization.
The five arrested were brought before the judicial authority as allegedly responsible for the crimes of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation, illegal detention and against the rights of foreign citizens. Three of them have been sentenced to prison.
The National Police stress that the most important way to help the victims of this crime is to bring the fact to the attention of the authorities, underlining that anyone who knows or suffers a situation of these characteristics should report it by telephone 900 10 50 90, from the email [email protected] as well as the usual forms of contact with the National Police through the emergency telephone number 091 or at any police station.
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