Gran Canaria Gang Accused of Recruiting Vulnerable Migrant Girls for Sexual Exploitation
Police rescued two victims and stopped four other minors from leaving the islands as five people were arrested in the investigation.
- On Aug 11, Spanish Investigators dismantled a criminal ring that allegedly recruited unaccompanied migrant girls from care centers in Gran Canaria for sexual exploitation.
- This operation follows the mass influx from Morocco into Ceuta in July, where Some 72,000 migrants breached the border, leaving hundreds of unaccompanied minors stranded in the city.
- The network allegedly exploited the girls' vulnerability by providing false identity documents and arranging their journeys to mainland Spain and France, where some faced sexual exploitation.
- Five people were arrested, including one minor, following Five searches across Gran Canaria; The Guardia Civil rescued two victims and prevented other minors from leaving the islands.
- Aid groups have warned that unaccompanied minors, many sleeping rough on the streets of Ceuta, remain at risk of abuse and exploitation as Investigators link similar cases to the network.
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The Spanish police dismantled a criminal network of trafficking of young migrants, who recruited them from reception centres in the Canary Islands to send them to Europe. Two victims were rescued, and five persons arrested, including a minor.On Tuesday, the Spanish police reported that they had dismantled a criminal network accused of recruiting unaccompanied young migrants to reception centres in the Canary Islands and sending them to mainland …
The Straits Times
The Local - EsPolice in Spain bust network accused of trafficking migrant girls
Some of the girls were sexually exploited. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On Tuesday, 11 August, the Spanish police reported that they had dismantled a criminal network accused of recruiting unaccompanied young migrants into reception centres in the Canary Islands and sending them to mainland Spain and France where they were sexually exploited.
One of the victims, who managed to return to Spain from France where she had been transferred, put the Civil Guard on the track
The Civil Guard has arrested five persons, one of them minors, for their alleged membership of a network based in Gran Canaria dedicated to the recruitment of unaccompanied foreign minors housed in reception centres. The organization would have facilitated the departure of the minors to later transfer them to different points of the Peninsula and France, where some of them were subjected to sexual exploitation. During the operation, the officers…
El Confidencial
Eldiario.esThe recruiters presented themselves as help to leave the centres, provided them with identity documents or travel that did not correspond to their true identity and coordinated their transfers.
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