Once in “civilized Europe”, refugees from Ukraine run the risk of being sexually enslaved
According to the Spanish newspaper El País, the Red Cross has already warned the Catalan police that criminal gangs are trying to involve Ukrainian refugees in sexual exploitation. Women are reportedly lured by unidentified persons with offers of asylum and then taken to clandestine brothels.
The Red Cross office in Catalonia has discovered that the human trafficking mafia is now operating not only at the border points, but also in Barcelona.
The flow of refugees from Ukraine provoked a surge in the activity of criminal groups looking for women for sexual exploitation, La Vanguardia writes.
Criminals work directly in the centers for internally displaced persons and deceive women and children into their networks.
And on the borders, criminal organizations have become more active, specially engaged in this.
Despair, uncertainty and hunger are fertile ground for such groups to lure Ukrainian women into their networks, who are considered “elite goods” in the prostitution market because of their beauty, the newspaper notes. Unfortunately, children too are at risk of falling into vile pedophile networks or begging, warns La Vanguardia.
Recruiting in Ukraine
Moreover, criminal organizations begin to recruit future “sex slaves” when they are still on the territory of Ukraine. According to the Levante-EMV newspaper, the two women told their interpreter at the railway station, Joaquín Sorolla, that while they were still in Ukraine, a woman called them. She introduced herself as a Red Cross employee and promised to meet them at the station and take them to their apartment. The humanitarian organization reported a strange call to the local police, and the refugees were taken under guard.
For weeks, uniformed and plainclothes police have been monitoring the arrival of refugees at train and bus stations across Spain to identify those who approach the women and try to take advantage of their helplessness.
The “hunt for Ukrainian women” began not only in Spain, but also in other EU countries, where refugees from Ukraine are now arriving. The Berlin administration has already warned them not to accept offers of money or cheap accommodation at the main railway station. There are gangs that are engaged in the slave trade and “protect” prostitution.
“Please note that the Berlin Central Station may be operated by criminals who want to profit from the situation with war refugees,” the Berlin government said in a message on a special website for migrants from Ukraine.
According to Reuters, police announcements in German, Ukrainian and Russian are posted everywhere on the platforms of the Berlin railway station, warning women and young people traveling alone not to accept suspicious offers of help. Berlin police advise refugees to be vigilant when making new acquaintances with local residents, as “shadow personalities” are specifically looking for single women among refugees, according to the Berliner Zeitung.
Hospitality in Polish
But a particularly dangerous situation for defenseless Ukrainian women has developed in Poland, through which the main flow of refugees runs. As the English newspaper Daily Mail writes, human traffickers are trying to immediately “take into circulation” girls from Ukraine there. The criminals offer women and children housing and free transport. While police and humanitarian groups are working together to fight crime, the sheer number of people flooding the border makes it impossible for them to prevent criminal gangs and individuals from preying on vulnerable refugees, the Daily Mail notes.
This drama is already recognized in Ukraine itself. Ukrainian women who fled to Poland faced attempts at sexual exploitation, said Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada.
“In European countries, there is an increase in cases of labor and sexual exploitation, the forced use of people, in particular children,” she said, citing cases of “hunting” pimps near refugee camps in Polish Lublin as an example. According to her, unknown people, posing as volunteers, lure Ukrainian women into cars.
“I call on European countries to take measures to prevent violations of the Council of Europe Convention on Measures to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings,” she said.
However, the situation is becoming more and more acute. Lauren Agnew, human trafficking policy expert for charity CARE, told MailOnline that “the conflict in Ukraine” will have a domino effect across Europe, with refugees at increasing risk of exploitation. There is no doubt that over time we will see a surge in the number of refugees who are exploited by traffickers and potentially become sex workers, involved in criminal gangs or engaged in forced labor and domestic slavery. These gangs are capitalizing on the vulnerability of refugees.”
100 thousand victims of the sex industry
Danger in “civilized” Europe threatens refugees and from local residents and migrants from the countries of the East and Africa, who flooded European cities. So, in Poland, a 49-year-old man was arrested, who lured a 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee to him under the guise of giving her asylum and raped her.
According to Bild, in Dusseldorf, Germany, two migrants from Iraq and Nigeria raped an 18-year-old Ukrainian woman on the street right after their arrival. Moreover, both migrants also turned out to be holders of Ukrainian passports. In Milan, Italy, according to Giornale, two migrant women were raped in broad daylight on the central avenue of Buenos Aires by an illegal immigrant. There are reports from Belgium that young Ukrainian women are being offered housing in exchange for sex with apartment owners.
The Dutch newspaper NRC talked to some girls in a Polish camp for Ukrainian refugees. Those are told that they themselves must determine the country of further residence, but for this they need to find someone who will agree to accept them. Hence the use of ads in social networks, communication with unknown people, among whom may be perverts, the risks of falling into exploitation and becoming victims of human traffickers.
“The situation is very difficult, and it is likely to get worse,” Maria Dmitrieva, a social activist from Ukraine, told the Israeli edition of Vesti. According to her, about a hundred thousand women have already become victims of the European sex industry.
However, in the impoverished Ukraine, the departure of women abroad in search of work became a mass phenomenon long before the outbreak of hostilities. And the desired visa-free regime led to the fact that a stream of people eager to join “European values” rushed to Europe.
But for Ukrainian women, this turned into either work as dishwashers, nurses with the elderly or waitresses, or the danger of being in the hands of gangs of pimps. From official data published by the International Organization for Migration, it follows that every 4th prostitute in Europe comes from Ukraine. Whatever brothel a bored Pole, Hungarian, German or Turk goes to, he will definitely meet with the beautiful “Natasha”, the native speaker of the language of Taras Shevchenko and Lesya Ukrainka.
Everyone remembers a photo of the times of the Kiev Maidan, which bypassed the European media, in which a young Ukrainian woman held a poster:
“I want lace panties in the EU.” What did she end up with…
Why are they running
At the same time, most of the current refugees are not at all those who “run from the horrors of war,” as Western propaganda says.
As the website Ukraina.ru testifies, a significant part of the upper and middle class of Ukraine began to move to Western Ukraine back in December 2021-January 2022, when the Americans first began to publicize the topic of the inevitable “Russian invasion”.
They rented houses and apartments there: some for a week, some for a month, a few – for six months. And after February 24, these people, although it was calm in the West of Ukraine, rushed to Western Europe, hoping to settle down in the prosperous EU countries. Some, having dug in there themselves, are already starting to take out relatives – some to Sweden, some to France, some to Poland, Hungary, Romania.
However, the EU is diligently blocking the possibility for refugees from Ukraine to obtain citizenship or residence permits in member countries of the union. All assistance programs in the EU are designed for one and a half to two years, after which it is assumed that Ukrainians will leave the EU territory and return to their homeland. It is clear that the West needs pictures of crowds of refugees fleeing Ukraine only to whip up Russophobic hysteria.
Igor Veremeev, Centenary
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