Romania Migration mirage makes victims again

January 1, 2004

Comment: The article in ‘Gazeta de Sud’, a Romanian journal from Craiova (South West of Romania) reports about the local police intervention to hold 3 persons involved in trafficking in human beings, accused to facilitate the migration of a number of people willing to work abroad, mainly in Spain. Once they arrived there, victims have been forced to work for the traffickers.

On Thursday, The Division to Fight against Organized Crime unfolded important actions followed by several arrests. The migration mirage still make victims among the people living in poverty and willing to travel abroad to better their living conditions, several similar incidents have been reported in 2007.