Baleizão / Beja: Romanian citizen identified by human trafficking.
A Romanian citizen, of 41 year old, It was identified by the military of the Territorial Office of the National Republican Guard Beja (GNR), by trafficking of suspected persons and aiding illegal immigration.
The case occurred in the village of Baleizão, county Beja, after a disrespect of termination on the public highway, having determined that five of the military involved in brawl, They are victims of human trafficking.
The five men, aged 21 and 27 year old, Indian nationality, They did not have identification documents and resided in facilities that the Guard considers as "degrading".
The GNR is investigating the case to see if the victims "were forced to hand over identification documents", without are "forced to work in degrading conditions" and without receiving any financial compensation.
The five Indian nationals were taken to the EME TSH Alentejo, multidisciplinary team specialized in the assistance to victims of trafficking, institution based in Évora.
The facts were sent by the Territorial Command Beja GNR to the Judicial Court of the city.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES
Operation “Tightrope”- April 2018
The Collective of Monsanto court judges applied effective prison sentences to 13 of 26 Defendants, between 6 and 16 years in prison. Two other defendants were convicted of pimping, another with suspended sentence and a last to a fine. The remaining nine defendants were acquitted, standing among them the lawyer Hugo Machado.
A network set up and led by clan Bambaloi, from Vila Nova de Milfontes, He won more than eight hundred thousand euros, amounts billed by four angariadoras companies of Romanian workers to pick olives, controlled by Bambaloi.
Operation "Masline"- December 2018
The Central Directorate of Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) Romanian arrested six individuals nationality, aged between 22 and 47 year old, for trafficking suspicions people, aiding illegal immigration and aid association illegal immigration.
The operation "Masline (Olive in Romanian), held in Beja areas, Ferreira do Alentejo and Montes Old (Aljustrel) and Torrão and even led to the identification of 255 foreign nationals citizens, coming from Eastern Europe, they were operated by the group.
It has been complied with 6 Arrest Warrants, 8 to house search, 2 office search and 12 for seizure of vehicles. Turn the DIAP revealed that "amounts were seized cash, car, ammunition and tobacco ".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
