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Spanish Police Dismantle Sex-Exploitation Rings in Murcia, Cádiz and Madrid

Investigations target networks that coerced irregular migrant women through debt, threats and 24-hour control.

Overview

  • In Alcantarilla, officers freed eight women and detained nine suspects as part of a probe into trafficking, prostitution-related crimes, drug dealing, immigration facilitation, labor violations and criminal-group activity.
  • In the Murcia searches, police seized cocaine, marijuana, MDMA, sexual‑enhancement medications, documentation, a vehicle and nearly €4,000 in cash, and the rescued victims received care from APRAMP.
  • In Sanlúcar de Barrameda, four foreign women were liberated from a flat used as a brothel, two detainees were ordered to prison, and a judge imposed a temporary closure of the premises.
  • Authorities attribute to the alleged Sanlúcar ringleader four sexual‑assault offenses in addition to forced prostitution and offenses against the rights of foreign citizens.
  • In Madrid’s Arganzuela district, a late‑October operation dismantled a ‘vertical brothel,’ identified 140 people and led to 16 arrests, including six clients and ten women who managed the flats for immigration violations.