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Police free 16 women who were forced into prostitution in Spain’s Andalucia region

SPAIN’S National Police on Friday arrested 10 members of a suspected pimping gang that forced 16 women into prostitution in Sevilla and Cadiz provinces. The gang is suspected of recruiting the women

7 Jan, 2024 @ 13:52

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead

Mother warns girls in Spain are being targeted by pimps on TikTok and Instagram after her daughter was roped into prostitution and killed by a sadomasochist

THE MOTHER of a 20-year-old woman who was murdered just over a year ago in Madrid has warned that girls in Spain are being targeted by ‘escort and model’ agencies via social

4 Dec, 2023 @ 12:28

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Women beaten up and exploited by prostitution gang in Spain's Valencia

Trafficking gang arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca for sexually exploiting women flown in from Columbia

POLICE have freed 11 sexually exploited women and arrested ten people for their part in the racket in Benidorm, Denia, and Gata de Gorgos. The Policia Nacional probe started last November when

7 Aug, 2023 @ 14:30

Alicante·Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Fraudster arrested for not paying €10k for 'Indecent Proposal' style sex meet in Spain's Valencia|

Street prostitutes could be fined up to €3,000 by Costa Blanca city in Spain

TOUGHER sanctions against street and public prostitutes come into force in Elche on Tuesday with fines as high as €3,000 per infraction. Elche council is also working on an action plan to

10 Jul, 2023 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Police smash gang that sexually exploited women on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE POLICIA NACIONAL have dismantled an Alicante gang who sexually exploited women after bringing them over from Columbia with false promises of jobs. Nine people have been arrested with two ringleaders jailed

30 Jun, 2023 @ 12:51

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Valencia·Valencian Community

Couple accused of buying young boy as mother in Spain's Madrid says husband ordered sale to distant relatives

Madrid police discover ‘dark room’ for orgies in the back of a local cafeteria

FROM THE outside, it looked like just another of Madrid’s many cafés. But inside this venue in the working-class neighbourhood of Usera, in the south of the capital, there were some very

9 Jun, 2023 @ 12:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Prostitute ring that threatened exploited women with voodoo to be tried in Malaga

The Provincial Court of Malaga will try four people for allegedly forcing Nigerian women into prostitution. The defendants, two men and two women, practised voodoo rituals on them and threatened to harm

3 Apr, 2023 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Former Benidorm policeman ran brothel exploiting young women on Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN ALICANTE brothel owner who exploited young, vulnerable and underage women has been arrested by the Policia Nacional. The 50-year-old Spaniard ordered his victims to be available to clients 24 hours a

29 Mar, 2023 @ 14:37

Alicante·Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Girl, 10. falls to death from eighth-floor of Valencia apartment block in Spain

Police in Spain arrest couple who used fake modelling and film agencies to force more than 120 women into prostitution

SPAIN’S National Police force has arrested a couple on suspicion of sexually exploiting more than 120 women in the Alicante municipalities of Elche and Novelda. The pair are thought to have created

4 Mar, 2023 @ 15:45

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Former deputy in ‘Mediator’ corruption case ‘went to brothel’ on day his Socialist Party denounced prostitution in Congress

THE FORMER Socialist Party deputy at the centre of a corruption scandal, Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, went to a brothel on the day that his party issued a condemnation of prostitution in

1 Mar, 2023 @ 21:00

Canary Islands·Lead·National News·Politics

Spain’s Civil Guard busts gang that was extorting prostitution clients with threatening messages

THE SPANISH Civil Guard has busted a criminal gang that was extorting and threatening men who had used the internet to secure the services of sex workers. A total of 22 arrests

22 Jan, 2023 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Seven women rescued from clutches of sex exploitation gang in Spain

SEVEN victims of a sex exploitation gang that operated in different parts of Spain have been freed by the Policia Nacional. Three men who pimped out the women were arrested after raids

16 Dec, 2022 @ 16:15

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Mar Menor·Murcia·Valencian Community

Police fail to find dead body of escort in Madrid apartment where her client committed suicide

SPAIN’S National Police were called on Saturday to an apartment in the centre of Madrid, where they discovered a man had hung himself in his bathroom. Just two days later they were

29 Nov, 2022 @ 15:43

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

Top court rejects extra night-time hours for clubs and late bars in Costa Blanca area of Spain

Court in Spain hands down 160-year sentence to man found guilty of killing sex workers with highly pure cocaine

A COURT in Valencia on Thursday handed down a sentence of nearly 160 years to a man who was found guilty of killing three women by intoxicating them with large quantities of

2 Sep, 2022 @ 12:40

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

LONG READ: Will Spain’s sex industry simply go underground as new anti-prostitution laws come into force?

FORTY kilometres outside Madrid, figures of dancing girls adorning the front of the seedy dark brick Olimpo are designed to lure punters off the motorway for a wild night of booze and

30 Jul, 2022 @ 19:15

Lead·Must Read·National News·Premium

Spain makes controversial step towards ban on prostitution

THE Spanish parliament has voted to draw up wide reaching legislation in a bid to crackdown on prostituion. The controversial move is targeted at those who benefit financially from the exploitation of

8 Jun, 2022 @ 15:45

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Parents Pimp Out Underage Daughter To Have Sex With Man, 78, In Public Park In Spain's Valencia Region

Parents pimp out underage daughter for €100 to have sex with man, 78, in public park in Spain’s Valencia region

A 78-year-old man has been arrested for having sex with a underage girl in a Castellon public park in the Valencian Community. The girl’s parents were also detained by the Policia Nacional

9 May, 2022 @ 15:00

Castellon·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Traffickers lured women to Spain with bogus job offers but forced them into prostitution at Valencia area flats

A gang that brought over women from Columbia with promises of legal jobs in Spain, but used them instead as prostitutes, has been brought down by the Policia Nacional. Eight women were

6 May, 2022 @ 15:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Police In Spain Bring Down Big Chinese Prostitution Network That Pocketed €5 Million

Police in Spain bring down Chinese prostitution network that pocketed €5 million

A Bilbao-based Chinese prostitution gang that banked an estimated €5 million has been smashed by the Policia Nacional. 63 people have been arrested- 61 of whom are Chinese nationals. 50 of the

18 Jan, 2022 @ 16:55

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Anonymous Tip Off Brings Down Murcia Gang That Sexually Exploited 19 Women They Shipped To Spain

Anonymous tip-off brings down Murcia sex exploiters who abused 19 women that came to Spain

AN anonymous e-mail to a Policia Nacional anti-human trafficking website has led to the bringing down of a major Murcia criminal gang. Police have arrested 26 people in Murcia and a person

13 Jan, 2022 @ 16:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Human trafficker hiding from justice is arrested on Spain's Costa Blanca and will be extradited to France

Fugitive human trafficking boss arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca and will be extradited to France

A fugitive wanted by French authorities for being a key member of a human trafficking gang has been arrested in Alicante. The 36-year-old Paraguayan man was part of a well-structured criminal network

6 Dec, 2021 @ 12:45

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Two Swedish men face 5 years jail in Mallorca for robbing and burning brothel

TWO Swedes who robbed and set fire to a brothel in Palma are facing five years in jail. The events took place in 2019, when the duo went to the nightclub in

3 Dec, 2021 @ 15:15

Balearic Islands·Lead·Mallorca

Trafficked Woman Forced Into Prostitution By Voodoo Rites And Huge Debt Is Rescued In Valencia Area Of Spain

Police in Valencia area of Spain rescue Nigerian woman forced into prostitution by voodoo rites

TWO people have been arrested in Valencia Province for human trafficking after Nigerian women were tricked by voodoo rites into becoming sex slaves. A victim originally from Benin City was freed by

16 Nov, 2021 @ 17:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Police Rescue Trafficked Woman Who Bravely Phoned Them From Valencia Bound In Spain

Police rescue woman forced into prostitution who phoned them from Valencia-bound coach in Spain

POLICE boarded a coach that arrived at Valencia bus station from Sevilla to rescue a victim of human trafficking. A Columbian man, 33, has been arrested for trafficking a person for the

3 Nov, 2021 @ 15:56

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

EXPLAINER: The sex industry in Spain and why PM Pedro Sanchez wants to ban prostitution

IT MAY be the oldest profession in the world, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Sunday to criminalise prostitution in Spain insisting the time has come to put an end to

28 Oct, 2021 @ 13:37

Lead·Must Read·National News·Politics

Street robbers grab man from behind and strip him to his underwear on Spain's Costa Blanca

Police arrest 17 involved in underage prostitution ring targeting children in care in Spain’s Mallorca

POLICE in Mallorca have arrested 17 people involved in an underage prostitution ring that ‘recruited’ troubled girls, many of whom were in care at centres across the island. A special investigation by

17 Sep, 2021 @ 14:00

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca