Victims were made to pose as well off but once in Europe they were confined to workplaces and severely exploited
Italian police have busted a trafficking network that used luxury cars to smuggle Chinese migrants into Italy before confiscating their passports and treating them like enslaved people.
The smugglers had the migrants pose as “unsuspecting Asian citizens, well-dressed, with little luggage, travelling in powerful and expensive cars driven by Chinese citizens who had lived in Italy for years and spoke Italian”, police said in a statement.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/26/police-bust-gang-using-luxury-cars-to-smuggle-chinese-migrants-into-italy
Author : Agence France-Presse in Rome
Publish date : 2024-06-26 16:54:07
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