Trafficked to Turin: the Nigerian women forced to work as prostitutes in Italy
Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy each year on the promise of a prosperous new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade

For nearly three decades, a thriving sex-trafficking industry has been operating between Nigeria and Italy. Many experts believe the trade in women started in the 1980s when Nigerians travelling to Italy on work visas to pick tomatoes realised that selling sex was far easier and more profitable than harvesting fruits or vegetables.

Since then an estimated 30,000 Nigerian women have been trafficked from their home country into prostitution, finding themselves on street corners and brothels in Italy and other European states...

Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... utes-italy

A woman called Michelle Mildwater covered this on Al Jazeera some time ago

As well as debt bondage, the trafficking rings force the girls to take voodoo
oaths AS WELL AS threatening lethal reprisals against the girls' families in their
home towns in Nigeria if they go to the police or dare to run away

While talking about trafficking, just who is running young Vietnamese into
Youkay to toil as slaves in hydroponic marijuana farms in every nook and
cranny of the country - including the Welsh valleys?

Just who said that that was happening? What is your source?

The original source was one Huw Jones, a man from the Welsh valleys, who recounted the tale of a drug bust
near his parents' home in some detail. This was about 7 years ago, when Jones was in Dhahran.

A little subsequent reading made it obvious that many dozens of young Vietnamese are being trafficked into
Britain to toil as marijuana farm slaves and that there is very serious big money involved:

https://www.google.com.kh/#q=vietnamese ... uana+farms

This, from GQ magazine, tells of an Al Jazeera investigation:

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ca ... on-vietnam

The mention of Albanian gangs is interesting. Is there any field of serious crime that the very
enterprising and adaptable Albanians have somehow carelessly overlooked?