Spanish Police have busted a network of Nigerian voodoo sex traffickers who use illegal migration routes to smuggle young girls into Europe.
Police said it was headed by three Nigerian women who target young women living in virtual poverty.
They were submitted to voodoo rituals threatening terrible consequences to them and their families if they disobeyed the organisation, police said.
Parts of their bodies were smothered in animal blood before they were threatened with death or infertility if they failed to obey the traffickers.
The women are being smuggled into Spain via Niger and Libya – before being told they owed up to 40,000 euros to their traffickers.
They are then being ferried to Italy in rickety boats along with scores of other desperate migrants.
The ladies are cramped in Dinghy rooms
Once in Italy, the syndicate flies them to Spain, using ID belonging to other women of Nigerian origin living legally in the country.
speaking after a bust, police said:
“Such is the fear of their bosses that one of the victims who fell pregnant aborted straight away and continued to prostitute herself so that they would never know.”
Although the police have been working around-the-clock to combat the traffickers, those that work and live in Benidorm a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Spain, say the problem has not gone away.
One bar manager told the Sun Online that apart from prostitution, the girls also engage in theft.
“You see one girl get taken away by the police and then it seems like two new ones return the very next night.
“There do seem to be quite a few Nigerian sex workers at the moment. I have heard about the voodoo stuff but I always thought it was a bit of a joke.
“It’s not the fact they are working as prostitutes that bothers most British tourists, it’s because they are forever trying to steal people’s wallets and handbags.
“After midnight they can be seen near all the busy pubs and clubs..and that’s when the problems start.”
SICAR Cat, a religious organisation which provides help to the victims of sex trafficking, said the use of voodoo is a means of coercing their victims.
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