Spanish police said Sunday [Jun 2] they had broken up a ring that smuggled in women from Nigeria and forced them into street prostitution by burning them with irons and using voodoo rituals.
Police arrested six Nigerian nationals, including the suspected woman ringleader, as part of an investigation launched last year after one of the prostitutes filed a complaint with the authorities.
“The control exercised over women was total, involving verbal threats as well as physical violence and various voodoo ceremonies to terrorise them,” police said in a statement. “The ring caused them serious injury through bites or by using an iron to cause second-degree burns.”
The ring recruited women in Benin City, a run-down Nigerian port, whose husbands and fathers had died and who were struggling to raise their children.
They transported the women overland to Morocco and then smuggled them on small wooden boats into Spain where they are forced to work as street prostitutes in Barcelona and Malaga.
Spanish police have swooped several times in past years on similar prostitution rings that used the threat of voodoo curses to frighten their victims into obedience.
Before leaving Nigeria, the rings often take their victims to shrines where they swear to pay their debts to the group and not to denounce them to the police.
The women leave fingernails, hair, underwear and other personal items at the shrines which they are told will give voodoo priests the power to harm them wherever they are in the world.
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Posted: at 2-06-2013 10:23 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
moni4real at 3-06-2013 01:14 AM (11 years ago) (f)
WONDERFUL, HAWKERS, MAMA WAKA, I KNOW MY FRIEND V WILL BE ANGRY WITH ME WHEN HE READ THIS, BUT WHAT CAN I DO? ANYWAY LET ME NOT SAY MUCH THIS TIME. LET THE SLEEP DOG LIES.
Posted: at 3-06-2013 01:14 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
Dis is not new. It has been on for a long time. Evevn Abacha wife and Stella Oasanjo of blessed memory fight against it in their pet projet. But d other first ladies, are too busy controling their husband than to engage in such pet projet.
Posted: at 3-06-2013 04:56 AM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
lovecommander at 3-06-2013 06:30 AM (11 years ago) (m)
Fulani and his cattle. Aboki and his suya. Yoruba and their owambe. Bini girls and their prostitution. The government should start thinking on how to tax these girls and make revenue from them.
Posted: at 3-06-2013 06:30 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
moni4real at 3-06-2013 06:38 AM (11 years ago) (f)
Report to moderator Logged posted: Jun 3 2013, 05:31 AM lovecommander (435)On Upcoming (m) | 5 mins ago Quote Fulani and his cattle. Aboki and his suya. Yoruba and their owambe. Bini girls and their prostitution. The government should start thinking on how to tax these girls and make revenue from them. Haha Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Posted: at 3-06-2013 06:38 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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