German Police Bust 9 Bulgarian Nationals for Human Trafficking

The German police have busted a Bulgarian prostitution ring in Bonn and Colon. Photo by DPA

The police in Germany’s Bonn have shattered an Eastern European human trafficking gang arresting 9 Bulgarians.

The detainees are aged between 15 and 39, reported the General Anzeiger.

According to a spokesperson of the authorities, women aged 17-22 were forced to work as prostitutes in the streets of Bonn and Colon for 12-15 hours daily. They were lured to go to Germany with promises for job and marriage opportunities.

The pimps would drive the forced sex workers to the streets and would collect them every day bringing them back to a place in a former train station in Hersel where the women slept in several small rooms.

Each of the prostitutes made about EUR 250 per day. The pimps are reported to have been taking all the money from them.

In March 2010, the local police set up an investigation commission, led by the Chief Commissioner Rainer Bell, who believes that the authorities have sufficient evidence against the human trafficking gang.

"For us it is difficult to understand how women could endure this state at all. They come from remote rural areas in Bulgaria where there is usually terrible poverty," Bell is quoted as saying.

In his words, the forced Bulgarian prostitutes underwent severe beatings and humiliations such as the pimps putting out cigarettes on their bodies.

The German police have even revealed that women who managed to escape back to Bulgaria were found by the gangsters and brought back to continue to work as sex slaves.

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