Big raid in red light milieu: 100 arrests and millions of business!

Big raid in red light milieu: 100 arrests and millions of business!

A dramatic attack shaken Villach: a 35-year-old man attacked a transformer near the state hospital on Wednesday and escaped on a bike with his prey. Eyewitnesses and surveillance videos quickly led the police to the suspect, which could be arrested in a brothel in the evening. Part of the robbery was still in possession of the man. The interrogating civil servants will request further details on Thursday to clarify possible backgrounds of the raid, such as reported.

A simultaneous major operation of the federal police threw a light on the conditions in the red light milieu. In one of the largest operations in the history of the Federal Office, around 1,500 civil servants mobilized in twelve federal states on Wednesday to smash a network of smugglers and pours. Over 60 brothels and apartments were searched and numerous arrests were carried out, including around 100 prostitutes from Thailand, many of them "ladyboys". Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer described this as "unprecedented blow against organized crime" and found that this network brought women and transsexuals to Germany with fake Schengen-Visa to exploit it there Tagesspiegel.de .

The officials revealed that the women and transsexuals concerned often had to hand over 100 percent of their income to the operators in order to pay off their enforced debts. The estimates of the authorities assume huge income in the millions through this unscrupulous exploitation, which operated across national borders for years. Minister Seehofer emphasized that many affected women and men had permanently suffered from the "boundless greed for profit of the smugglers". These raids aim to illuminate the information and the dark machinations that are often behind prostitution and to free women from their emergency.