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Sex workers are being trafficked in north London - BBC London

Feb 18, 2020
On some London streets residents say prostitution is now out of control. I wear a mask because I am afraid for my safety. The pimps are threatening people and I don't want to get stabbed by the residents who have been watching this. activity for months they believe that women are victims of human trafficking their pimps come with their fans and download these girls let's hear a woman who has escaped this life say how desperate the man is, say if you don't . money for me, I'll kill your family, I'll burn the women with cigarettes or cut their faces off and we'll follow the trail back to Romania where the teenagers have been saved from traffickers and we'll hear about the recruitment techniques they use.
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I've been invited to a block of flats in Edmonton,

north

London. Some residents here say they are very scared. The only way to talk about what is happening is to dress up. I fear for my safety and I simply do not want to be attacked. What you feel like is a resident of this block who was not going to identify himself having to dress up like this to tell us what is happening. I think it's ridiculous from vantage points close to the block we can film what the residents say. This happens many nights between 9:00 p.m. and at 4:00 a.m.
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They are in every corner of our building, we are talking about 20+ girls protected and watched by 8 or 9 guys and the pimps are violent and threatening people who confront the girls which has made it incredibly dangerous. I want to move. this man has been watching closely for months because it happens right outside his apartment window you don't expect this outside your door there are pins they come with their fans and they unloaded these girls it's a closed van we're not even windows although official figures suggest that Albanians are the most

trafficked

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

being

trafficked

. It's very It's heartbreaking, it's not right that this is happening on some streets and some nights there are people who are trying to help these women. Many of the women we know are European, we are on the front line because we are on foot. and we go to known areas where women are, you actually need to go out and talk to women to find out the problems. Where are you from in Romania? This woman said that she had arrived in the UK five months earlier.
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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 to The charity also helped this woman who spent a year working as a street prostitute in Ilford East London. She agreed to tell us her story as long as we protect her identity. You sat down at 6:00 p.m. and I 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 and told me to come with me to London turned on all the other girls on the street, maybe in a worse position, the men say he loved them so they come here but When you say you don't want to work as a prostitute, the beatings begin.
The men say that if you don't stay to earn money from me, I will give you a mother, your children, your family in Romania, these men. They are called fish because they catch women to do this. We want to know more about how these men operate, so we'll follow the trail to Romania to meet another woman who knows her techniques well after we tell them. I love you, it's normal for Fullilove, that's why he's so evil Jana has created a charity that offers teenage girls a way to escape traffickers. He offers them a place in a safe house away from his clutches at a secret address on a hill

north

of Bucharest all the girls have stuffed toys they didn't have love they didn't have toys they had just been abused emotional physical sexually whatever they are forced to have ten 15 clients a day to make money at the end of the day if not I didn't make the money, there was physical violence involved.
She had a girl buried alive and then they were cleaning the dirt off her face and they asked her if she was going to do this again and then cover her again. They are looking for these girls and want to punish them as an example for others, this is all we can show of the teenagers in this safe house because they are very threatened and very vulnerable. One is only 13 years old. She is the case among many in which a child eats. Once they have learned to live independently they will be offered a new life in a new location, but if they had not ended up in the safe house within a few years, for some the destination chosen by their traffickers might have been London. take these girls wherever the money is, whether they are over 18 or just under and their forged documents end up in London because the money is there, so what are the authorities doing to stop the traffickers?
We would like you to give you some recommendations so that you can avoid the traps of traffickers, they know how to detect and take advantage of your weaknesses in Romanian schools. Teenagers are taught not to fall for their tactics. The Romanian public must be educated, must be informed about the risks. but what about London? Well, the Metropolitan Police have gotten 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. I would be angry and upset. Anyone can explore women for their own games this way.
For 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 it may not be an easy task. Battle to take back in Edmonton Residents say police have tried several times to clear streets outside their block with little effect. Have you stopped it? It's not a completely new group of girls that we haven't seen before. There is a roaring trade and it is not. the kind of exchange we won on our doorstep and while we were filming it 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 it is committed to finding a long time. long-term solution, but Londoners with scenes like this around the corner want action

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