German police set sights on Vietnamese people smuggling
By AFP January 19, 2021 | 08:59 am GMT+7
German special police pose at their Federal Police Offices in Potsdam, Germany, May 15, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke.
German federal police said they were stepping up European cross-border cooperation to fight Vietnamese human trafficking, after Berlin became a key hub in a network of exploitation in service industries.
Lured by jobs in Europe, Vietnamese migrants are smuggled illegally often through China or Russia, Carsten Moritz, head of the human trafficking unit of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), told public broadcaster
RBB Monday.
Arrivals from Vietnam frequently work under exploitative conditions to pay off smuggling debts, which cost around 10,000 to 20,000 euros ($12,000 to $24,000) per person.
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German federal police said Monday they were stepping up European cross-border cooperation to fight Vietnamese human trafficking, after Berlin became a key hub in a network of exploitation in service industries.
Lured by jobs in Europe, Vietnamese migrants are smuggled illegally often through China or Russia, Carsten Moritz, head of the human trafficking unit of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), told public broadcaster RBB.
Arrivals from Vietnam frequently work under exploitative conditions to pay off smuggling debts, which cost around 10,000 to 20,000 euros ($12,000 to $24,000) per person.
A huge network that is active all over Europe is behind trafficking from Vietnam, according to the BKA, generating enormous sums for criminals.