Posted on 11/26/2005 7:19:01 PM PST by Lorianne
Young women are being imprisoned as sex slaves in secret underground bunkers before being trafficked to Britain, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
Our investigation uncovered shocking evidence in eastern Europe, including video footage, of groups of women locked in squalid cellars below motels.
A police video shows young girls being released from a cellar The victims - found by police in a series of raids - were allowed out of the cramped bunkers only to "service" clients in nearby rooms before being taken straight back underground.
The "cellar girls" were among thousands of young women lured to Macedonia from their native countries across eastern Europe by ruthless criminal gangs.
Promised jobs as waitresses, au pairs or dancers, they are forced into prostitution before being sold to human traffickers.
In a series of undercover investigations, the Sunday Telegraph has already revealed that women can be bought for £1,400 in Romania. They are among the victims of what has been described as "medieval slavery in the 21st century".
Many end up in Britain, enslaved by ruthless Albanian gangs who, according to Scotland Yard, now control almost all of London's prostitution rings.
Travelling last week to Macedonia to investigate reports of "girl markets", we found evidence that girls were being sold, individually and in groups.
Police video recordings revealed to us show young women from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria emerging, dazed and frightened through hidden trapdoors.
One clip shows a dank, windowless corridor which officers said led to a cellar with no lights or heating and with mattresses strewn over the dusty floor. Other footage reveals another cellar and an attic where sex slaves were kept.
Western Macedonia has a mainly ethnic Albanian population and, with Kosovo and Albania, forms part of Europe's biggest people-trafficking area.
The traumatised women saved by police were taken to a shelter in the capital, Skopje, where they were given counselling and asked to give evidence against the traffickers.
A number of ethnic Albanians have been charged with trafficking and the women have gone home.
A police spokesman in Skopje said: "The people who can subject women to this medieval slavery in the 21st century are inhuman. They are sick."
Growing concern about the tide of eastern European women being brought into Britain and forced into sexual slavery has prompted Tony Blair to declare war against people-traffickers.
After being made aware last night of our investigation, he said: "It is shocking. Some of these Eastern European gangs cover their attacks so well and the scale of their intimidation is colossal."
Mr Blair warned that the police and security services' powers were "not sufficient" and that new measures would be brought in soon.
These could include suspects being held without charge for longer than the 48-hour maximum.
bttt
"It's sick out there and getting sicker." - Bob Grant
Albania is 70% Muslim. These gangs wouldn't happen to Muslim would they? The news didn't say so I'm guessing they are.
"Many end up in Britain, enslaved by ruthless Albanian gangs who, according to Scotland Yard, now control almost all of London's prostitution rings."
Shoot to fing kill, ya limey poofters.
I understand that the general consensus (unofficial, of course) is that Natalie Holloway has been trafficked as a sex slave.
Western Macedonia has a mainly ethnic Albanian population and, with Kosovo and Albania, forms part of Europe's biggest people-trafficking area.
Just another day at the office in the paradise of the Balkans created by Clinton.
Western Macedonia has a mainly ethnic Albanian population and, with Kosovo and Albania, forms part of Europe's biggest people-trafficking area.
Muslim slavers. Thanks, bill clinton. Thanks, Tony Blair, for coming to the aid of the Albanian Muslims in Kosovo, and helping them run drugs and slaves into Western Europe.
I see we are in agreement about the key paragraphs, which are somewhat buried in this article.
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NATALIE HOLLOWAY! NATALIE HOLLOWAY! NATALIE HOLLOWAY!
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How much is L1,400??
I'm with you. I think Natalee is hooked on drugs and being passed around to men with names like Jamal or Abdul. We need to pray for her. Human trafficking is an unholy assault on civilization. What's not to get about the invasion of Islam?
Supply and Demand
Shame on the supplier and shame on the demand.
Serbs = indigenous anglo european.
Croats = Muslim Bosnik invaders.
Kosovo = blue print for American invasion.
| 1,400.00 GBP United Kingdom Pounds |
= | 2,401.64 USD United States Dollars |
| 1 GBP = 1.71546 USD | 1 USD = 0.582935 GBP |
thank you...
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