Sex workers are being trafficked in north London - BBC London

on some streets in

london

residents say prostitution is now out of control i am wearing a mask because i fear for my safety people are

being

threatened by pimps and i dont want to get stabbed residents who have been watching this activity for months believe that women are victims of human trafficking their pimps come with their fans and unload these girls let's hear from a woman who has escaped this life about how desperate the man is to say if you don't make money for me i will kill your family, I will burn the women with cigarettes or slash their faces and we will follow the trail back to Romania, where the teenagers have been saved from the traffickers and we will hear about the recruitment techniques they use.

I've been invited to a block of flats in Edmonton,

north

London, some residents here say they're so scared the only way to talk about what's going on is to dress up I fear for my safety and just don't want to be attacked what do you feel is an inhabitant of this block that you will not identify yourself having to disguise yourself like this to tell us what is happening seems ridiculous to me from points of view close to the block we can film what the neighbors say is happening on many nights between 9: 00 pm and 4:00 a.m. m. they are in every corner of our building we are talking about 20+ girls protected and watched over by 8 or 9 guys and the pimps are violent and threatening people confronting the girls makes it unbelievably dangerous i want to move this man has been watching closely for months because it happens right outside your apartment window you don't expect this outside your door there pins they come with their fans and unloaded these girls it's a closed van it's not even us windows even though official figures I suggest Albanians They are the most

trafficked

nationality.

He has no doubts about the language he hears most often on the street. They speak Romanian. It really makes you sad when you thought that these people are from my country. My people are

being

human

trafficked

. It is very heartbreaking, it is not right that this is happening under some streets and on some nights there are people trying to help these women, many of the women we meet are European, we are on the front lines because we are on foot. and we go to known areas where the women are, you really need to go out and talk to the women to find out the issues where you are from in romania, this woman said she had come to the uk five months earlier.

Don't know. I think she really understood that she was a victim of trafficking because she was forced to come and work in prostitution. The person she came to stay with had hit her. She couldn't take the violence anymore, so she approached us. help she was moved to a safe haven the charity also helped this woman who spent a year working as a prostitute on the streets of ilford east

london

agreed to tell us her story as long as we protect her identity you sat down at 6:00 p.m. and finished at 4:00 in the morning seven days a week.

I saved 10,000 pounds in cash, but the man I met in Romania told me to come with me to London, so he enlightened all the other girls on the street, maybe in worse position. The men say that I loved them, so they come here, but when you say you don't want to work as a prostitute, the beatings start, the men say that if you don't stay to earn money for me, I will give you a mother, your children, your family in Romania , These men. they are called the fish because they fish women to do this we want to know more about how these men operate so we are following the trail to romania to meet another woman who knows her techniques well after telling them i love you its normal for Fullilove that's why he's so evil Jana has set up a charity that offers teenage girls a way to escape the traffickers offers them a place in a safe house away from their clutches at a secret address on a hill

north

of Bucharest every weekday. girls have stuffed toys they did not have love they did not have toys they had only abused emotional physical sexual whatever they are forced to have ten 15 clients a day to make money at the end of the day if not I did not earn the money there was physical violence involved they buried alive to a girl and then they were wiping the dirt off her face asking are you going to do this again and then again cover her they are looking for these girls and they want to punish them as an example to others this is all we can show of teenagers in this safe house because they are so threatened and so vulnerable one is only 13 she is just the case of many where a child eats once they have learned to live independently they will be offered a new life in a new place but had they not ended up in the safe house in a few years, for some the destination of choice for their traffickers might have been London. take these girls wherever the money is, whether there are over 18s or a little under and their fake papers end up in London because the money is there, so what are the authorities doing to stop the dealers?

We would like you to give them some recommendations so that you can avoid the traps of traffickers they know how to detect and use your weaknesses in romanian schools adolescents are taught not to fall for their tactics the romanian public should be educated is to be informed about the risks But what about London? Well, the Metropolitan Police have gone tough. It's about letting them know that we don't tolerate their pre-dawn behavior. They are targeting 16 addresses in five East London boroughs sisters I have a daughter and I think anyone would be angry and upset anyone can scout women for their own games like this to me these people were a joint operation with the Romanian police and 17 people were arrested and held on suspicion of controlling prostitution and modern slavery, but this may not be an easy battle to win back in Edmonton Residents say police have tried multiple times to clear streets outside their block with little effect, what? has it stopped at all?

A whole new group of girls that we haven't seen before. the kind of deal we won at our doorstep and as we filmed it continued as if the police weren't here at all they even tell you where to go so they can't be seen the met says he's committed to finding a long-long solution deadline, but Londoners with scenes like this on their doorstep want action