Meeting the Human Traffickers

CONVICTED TRAFFICKERS IMPRISONED IN ROMANIA

In an article posted on the BBC website this week, journalist Nick Thorpe reports on the other side of trafficking--the criminals who traffic humans tell him their stories.

From the article:

In Buzau [Romania]...we meet a woman trafficker. Ana wears a bright orange sweatshirt, and flirts cheerfully during the interview. When I pause the tape-recorder, to rack my brains for the next question, she offers one of her own.

"You wanted to ask for my phone number?" she jokes.

She is a strange case - a victim, turned trafficker. The police version agrees, up to a point.

She was taken to Bologna in Italy, by Romanian traffickers. There she was treated cruelly, as were all the other east European girls under their control.