HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99rkj1jejko Police in Romania and Hungary say ...
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Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of social care, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.
For more than a decade, traffickers brought men and women from Romania to the Hungarian capital, promising them relatively high salaries and good housing.
They were instead put to work for little pay, mainly at a waste-recycling plant near Budapest, according to details of the investigation made public on Friday.
Five men and three women were detained as part of the investigation, and most of them come from the same family originally from central Romania, say police.
“The perpetrators' favourite victims were those coming from foster care centres, who were easily persuaded and exploited by false promises," according to Romanian prosecutors who specialise in fighting organised crime.
“The victims were forced, including through acts of violence, to work hours that were physically and psychologically unbearable…and to live in inhumane conditions, under permanent surveillance.”
Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of social care, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.
For more than a decade, traffickers brought men and women from Romania to the Hungarian capital, promising them relatively high salaries and good housing.
They were instead put to work for little pay, mainly at a waste-recycling plant near Budapest, according to details of the investigation made public on Friday.
Five men and three women were detained as part of the investigation, and most of them come from the same family originally from central Romania, say police.
“The perpetrators' favourite victims were those coming from foster care centres, who were easily persuaded and exploited by false promises," according to Romanian prosecutors who specialise in fighting organised crime.
“The victims were forced, including through acts of violence, to work hours that were physically and psychologically unbearable…and to live in inhumane conditions, under permanent surveillance.”