Italian Police Detain Dozens of Human Trafficking Mafia

The Italian police announced on Tuesday arresting dozens of human trafficking mafia.

This operation came within international efforts covering a number of countries to fight gangs affiliated to the world mafia.

This criminal organization, based in Nigeria in the west of Africa, runs networks of trafficking people, enslaving, and blackmailing.

The Italian news agency “ Achi” unveiled that the police raided a number of strongholds directed by the mafia across the country.

The  Italian General Attorney has issued warrants to seize suspects in cities in the south, middle and north of Italy.

Host security agencies coordinate efforts to arrest leaders of the criminal rings.

Interpol supported the local security agencies in Italy to shadow some of the suspects and arrest them in France, Germany, and Malta.

It is worth mentioning that the European nations exert more efforts to fight trafficking people from the southern bank of the Mediterranean Sea.

Nationals of the sub-Saharan countries flee their homelands that suffer from civil wars, high rates of unemployment and poverty.

The Europeans are carrying a wholesome security plan to close their borders against the infiltrating of the illegal immigrants.

Human trafficking involves recruitment, harboring or transporting people into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception or coercion and forced to work against their will.

In other words, trafficking is a process of enslaving people, coercing them into a situation with no way out, and exploiting them.

People can be trafficked for many different forms of exploitation such as forced prostitution, forced labour, forced begging, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage, and forced organ removal.

Contrary to a common misconception, people don’t necessarily have to be transported across borders for trafficking to take place. In fact, transporting or moving the victim doesn’t necessarily define trafficking.

When children are trafficked, no violence or coercion needs to be involved. Simply bringing them into exploitative conditions constitutes trafficking.

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Trafficking for sexual exploitation gets much attention. However, majority of people are being trafficked for labour exploitation.

Many people who fall victims to trafficking want to escape poverty, improve their lives, and support their families. Often they get an offer of a well-paid job abroad or in another region, borrow money from their traffickers in advance to pay for job arrangement, travel, and accommodation.

When they arrive, they find that the work they applied for does not exist, or the conditions are completely different. But it’s too late, their documents are often taken away and they are forced to work until their debt is paid off.