Overview

• Police freed five women and detained eight suspects in operations spanning Toledo and Madrid, with seven arrests in Toledo and one in the capital.
• Three alleged ringleaders were placed in provisional prison as investigators pursue charges including coerced prostitution, human trafficking and drug offenses.
• Victims reported false job offers, debt bondage up to €6,000, confiscated documents and forced 24-hour prostitution with a 50% cut taken by the network.
• Searches seized over €7,000 in cash, about two kilograms of cocaine and a secondary drug-processing setup, along with documents, electronics and phones, and one flat was closed.
• In a separate Badalona case sparked by an August pistol-rape call, four suspects were arrested on September 16; 18 women were liberated and officers recovered €42,000, weapons and drugs.