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The Spanish Police arrested a couple accused of forcing at least seven victims into prostitution in southern Spain, women they recruited in Colombia and to whom they paid for the trip to generate a debt that made them more vulnerable.
According to this security force, the operation began last March, when they arrested the couple, but they were released after paying the bail requested by the judge.
Now, a final phase of the operation allowed for the re-arrest of these people, accused of sexually exploiting their victims, after taking advantage of the provisional freedom they enjoyed to re-recruit some of those women and force them again into prostitution in two houses in Granada and Almería.
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The detainees took advantage of their provisional imprisonment to resume the illicit activity and threatened several of the previous witnesses to change their testimony. This behavior activated the second phase of the operation, developed in April, and a third that allowed them to be stopped again now. The arrested are a couple, aged 35 and 30, who recruited women with financial needs, victims to whom they paid for trips to Spain to generate a debt of 2,000 euros, and another 1,000 in interest. To pay off this amount, the victims were forced to prostitute themselves seven days a week and for 15 hours, during which time they could not leave the houses where they were. The couple violated the restraining order imposed in court to force two of the women who had not yet paid off the debt claimed by the pimps to prostitute themselves again. Following this new arrest, they were once again brought before the court.
