The police in the African country of Niger on Friday, with the help of the international police organisation Interpol issued a large-scale mensenhandelnetwerk rolled up. Of the 232 victims have been released from their perilous situation, and among them 46 children, most of them as illegal, they have been used.
The youngest victim, was a ten-year-old. The children were brought into the hostels and the neighbourhoods with the goal to make as much money as possible to win. According to Interpol, the children have a lot of issues, and the HPV infection has been that in the long run can lead to cervical cancer or genital warts.
Nine of the children were forced to perform sexual acts, they were like beggars on the street, standing near a bus station and a supermarket. All of the young victims, have been returned to their families, according to Interpol.
in Addition, the children also have a 180-Ghanaian men are delivered online, jobs had been promised, but upon arrival in Niger, have been detained and forcibly removed the illegal activities were to be carried out.
for more than one hundred politiemedewerkers used in the operation, < / p> In the capital, Niamey, worked for more than one hundred politiemedewerkers along with an unknown amount of raids and house searches. Eighteen suspects have been detained and are suspected of trafficking in human beings and crimes against children in the family.
The surgery was at the end of January already, and it was Sarraounia is called, in the native language, you’re within the Niger river, the “queen” or “female chief” really means.
the Secretary-general, mr Jürgen Stock, Interpol has condemned the traffickers, in a statement. “Whether it’s for the children, men and women, traffickers do not show an interest in their physical and mental health. They see their victims simply as a way to earn a living.”