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Prostitution, vanquished gang that recruited women in Bulgaria

2021-10-12T08:20:50.624Z


Forced into prostitution and reduced to slavery, one of them suffering from a serious handicap. Eight arrests (ANSA)


An organization that 'recruited' young women from Bulgaria, paying them just over six thousand euros each, to then force them to prostitute themselves on the street, keeping them in slavery, was vanquished by the Catania mobile squad who arrested eight people and notified an obligation to stay .

A tenth suspect is currently unavailable.

A detention issued by the Dda of the Public Prosecutor's Office and a precautionary custody order by the investigating magistrate were carried out against them. Four Bulgarians were sent to prison and four Italians under house arrest. The crimes hypothesized, for various reasons, are human trafficking, enslavement, criminal association aimed at exploiting prostitution, aggravated by transnationality.

The investigation of the 'Bokluk' operation, a Bulgarian word for garbage and a term that the suspects used to indicate the victims, were launched in June 2020 after the denunciation of two Bulgarians against a foreigner who wanted to pay her the so-called 'joint', the space they occupied in the street, near the Catania railway station, where they used to prostitute themselves. The investigations of the policemen of the Foreign Crime and Prostitution section. coordinated by the pool of magistrates of the Catania DDA experts in these types of crimes, they made it possible to ascertain that the victims, after the 'recruitment', were housed in dilapidated houses in the San Cocimo district in poor hygienic conditions,deprived of all liberties and identity documents and fed with the bare necessities to make them survive: the girls were given not only little food, but also inexpensive dishes such as potatoes.

The victims guaranteed the criminal group a constant income of around 1,400 euros per week each.

The girls, subjected to beatings and abuses, were forced into prostitution every day from 7 pm to 4.30 am, even during the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

The police confiscated computer equipment, mobile phones, valuables and money.

There was also a particularly vulnerable girl, because of a severe handicap, forced into prostitution by the organization vanquished by the Catania police who 'recruited' and then held young women in slavery in Bulgaria.

She was identified by the mobile team of the Police Headquarters in the home of the promoter of the association, Emil Milanov, 49, who is among the eight arrested.

After being heard by magistrates of the DDA of Catania, with the collaboration of an anti-trafficking body, she was placed in a protected structure for victims of trafficking. From his statements, the Prosecutor reconstructs, "a dramatic picture emerged". "The girl - it is explained by the Dda - was abused by the entire association, which, taking advantage of the extreme vulnerability, due to her condition as a woman, a foreigner and suffering from a serious and limiting handicap". The group "forced her not only to prostitute herself, but also to carry out domestic duties, cooking, waking her in some cases in the middle of the night and harassing her with indescribable physical and verbal violence".

With the police investigations, according to the Public Prosecutor of Catania, "it was possible to demonstrate that the criminal organization, headed by the couple Emil Milanov and Milena Milanova, provided for a precise assignment of roles and tasks, through the contribution and operational collaboration of Italians and Bulgarians, with tasks of monitoring and accompanying the victims "to the place where they were forced into prostitution.

The operation, explains the DDA, was called 'Bokluk', garbage in the Bulgarian language, because the suspects used to refer to women subjected to their 'domination' with this expression.


Source: ansa

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