Human trafficking

Bulgarian citizens were kept as slaves and forced to beg in France, NOVA reports.

Yesterday, French police detained 11 people in Toulouse. All of them are Bulgarian citizens citizens as well. The arrested organized a human trafficking network from Bulgaria for the purpose of begging in France.

They authorities busted a criminal group for human trafficking, which mainly exported girls for prostitution, the Ministry of Interior informed.

The owner of Kosovo’s Medicus clinic and his head anaesthetist were convicted of human trafficking and organised crime after a court found they carried out illegal transplant operations to sell kidneys to patients.

Spanish police arrested 41 Bulgarians, informs abc.es, quoted by NOVA. They were members of a criminal group who grabbed or bought underage girls and used them for theft and prostitution.

These people were accused of human trafficking.

Hundreds of undocumented Afghan and Syrian migrants have been rounded up and deported during anti-human trafficking operations in Turkey's Aegean provinces, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 5.

In its latest report, the Council of Europe's Human Trafficking Expert's Group, GRETA, has criticised Hungary for its ability and willingness to detect potential victims of human trafficking among migrants and asylum seekers in the country.

Turkey and Afghanistan might strike a blow against drug traffickers by struggling together against a "human trafficking mafia," which are both actually part of the same group, according to a Kabul diplomat, who has also called on Iran to join the efforts. 

At least 116 undocumented migrants have been held during anti-human trafficking operations across Turkey, according to coast guard officials on April 10.

Cyprus is among European countries in which labor exploitation has emerged as the predominant form of trafficking, according to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA).

According to the main findings of the report trafficking for labor exploitation is on the rise across Europe.

A police chief was detained on March 27 for suspected involvement in a human trafficking gang in the northwestern border province of Edirne.