Leipzig – Raids in Leipzig and Halle’s popular Vietnamese restaurants! Dozens of officials arrived in the “Viet Village” on Monday morning and searched the premises.
Reason: one Europe-wide raid against a Vietnamese smuggler gang! There were searches in Berlin, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony.
Eleven people were arrested in Leipzig. The accusation weighs heavily: smuggling, forced prostitution, illegal work! According to the Leipzig Federal Police, the women are said to have been employed in restaurants and markets.
Europe-wide large-scale raid
At the same time, objects were stormed by the local police in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. There, too, a main suspect goes to the investigators on the net.
A man is being led away in Leipzig
A third raid then started in the morning in another European country, in Hungary. Apparently, the results of the searches of the morning raid led to findings that enabled Euro-Pol to deliver another blow to the gang.
The smuggler gang is accused of smuggling more than a hundred women from their home country of Vietnam to Germany via Slovakia. For this, the Vietnamese women had to pay the smugglers up to 21,000 euros.
The women worked in nail salons as a pretext, but in fact most of them were forced to work off the sum as forced prostitutes.
–There was also a raid in the Viet Village in Halle
The officers had investigated the gang for around a year, including listening to and evaluating phone calls. On Monday, the blow to the heads takes place simultaneously in Germany and Slovakia; later in Hungary.
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