Operation against illegal immigration networks in Málaga

Operación contra las redes de inmigración ilegal en Málaga

Agents of the Central Police Unit in charge of combating illegal immigration networks have dismantled a Nigerian network active in the trafficking of women in Málaga, Madrid and Barcelona. The victims were forced into prostitution. Fifteen have been rescued, including five minors. Eighteen people have been arrested.

This is the moment police enter the house in Málaga where an organisation carried out the trafficking of women for prostitution. It was 11 July and this same image took place simultaneously in other branches of the same network in Madrid and Barcelona.

In total 18 people were placed under arrest, 13 were sent to prison by court order, and 15 women were rescued, all of whom were Nigerian, including five minors. All were held under conditions of slavery and forced to practice prostitution in the streets of the Guadalhorce industrial park in Málaga. All were coerced under the exercise of voodoo, black magic and threats of reprisals against their families in Nigeria.

The operation involved a one-year investigation after an anonymous tip was made to the Interior Ministry in relation to the trafficking of human beings. It is understood that the organisation operates in other European countries. The organisation has been broken up in Spain, however it still operates in Europe.