Italy says thousands of Nigerian women who arrive as migrants are forced to work as prostitutes

Los Angeles Times ^ | 08 December 2016 | Tom Kington

[Lorianne]

steep rise in the number of Nigerian prostitutes working in Italy is being linked to the arrival in the country of well-organized Nigerian mafias, which are using violence and religious rites to terrify trafficked women into submission, police say.

Police say their operations this year have revealed the presence in Italy of a host of Nigerian gangs with names such as the Black Axe, the Vikings, the Buccaneers, the Eiye and the Maphites.

The gangs have arrived in Italy as the number of Nigerian women sailing to the country from Libya has risen from 1,454 in 2014 to 10,624 between January and the end of November.

Of those, as many as 80% are forced to work as prostitutes, according to the International Organization for Migration.

[Sequoyah101]

In all the time I spent there you’d think the food was laced with salt peter. Knocks the wind right out of your sail.

[Organic Panic]

Doing the jobs Europeans won’t do.