It all started when a woman began to shout for help inside a car in the Marconi de Villaverde polygon.

A man had hired her but when she asked him for the money,

the individual told her that he had nothing and pressed the accelerator

saying: "Now you're coming with me."

It was 11:00 pm last Thursday.

A National Police patrol car was making raids on San Dalmacio Street and ran into the vehicle that was fleeing at high speed through the area where women practice prostitution.

Inside the car, the abducted woman asked for help and put her hands out the window.

The agents followed the car and the driver stopped when he saw that the police cornered him.

When officials approached the suspect vehicle, they saw a woman in the passenger seat who was gesturing.

At that moment, the driver shot out again while the girl again showed her arms outside the window and said:

"He won't let me get off, he won't let me get off."

In the escape, the car put the lives of the agents at risk, always according to the police version.

A chase then began in which the man

was about to run over several women in the Marconi industrial estate.

The flight ended in Piñuecar Street, five minutes later.

The vehicle left the road at a roundabout located at the confluence of Piñuecar with Aceveda street.

The driver

was injured in the collision

and was taken by the Samur to Hospital 12 de Octubre.

In the medical center he was arrested accused of a crime of illegal detention, a crime of disobedience and a crime against road safety.

In the crashed car, the agents discovered papers with narcotic substances, white powder and beer bottles.

The woman was slightly injured and was taken to the police station to file a complaint against the man.

Campaign against human trafficking

This same week the National Police has released a video,

coinciding with the celebration of the International Day Against Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking,

which, as it explains, is aimed at the prostitution consumer for the first time, under the slogan

If you are a client, you pay their slavery

.

The objective, according to the National Police, is to make society aware that "

more than 80% of prostituted women in Spain are victims of trafficking

", that is, "of a crime that continues to be profitable for criminal organizations thanks to the economic benefits provided by those who pay for this type of service ".

The chief inspector of the Central Brigade to combat trafficking, Ismael Delmas, has explained to the media that the money that moves this industry that "uses people as objects" is

"comparable" to that of drug trafficking and weapons globally.

As indicated, the procedure of the mafias consists of capturing, mainly women, those who promise a decent job in Spain, taking advantage of the situation of extreme need that they live in their countries of origin and, to achieve that supposed new life, the victims they pay large amounts of money, sometimes all they have, without being aware that this capital will never be used for that purpose.

Once in Spain, the criminal organizations inform them that they have contracted a high debt that they will have to pay off by practicing prostitution in a forced way, for which they will be forced to prostitute themselves for years.

333 operations in 2020

The National Police has indicated that, during 2019, the National Police carried out a total of 515 operations related to sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation, freeing 921 people, of which 896 were women.

In these operations, 481 perpetrators of this crime were arrested.

In addition, it points out that, during the first eight months of 2020, 333 similar operations have already been carried out.

To try to reduce these figures, the National Police began this awareness campaign that will have "an important presence on its official Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram profiles from this Wednesday."

Under the hashtag #SinClientesNoHayTrata, new messages, videos and posters will be launched to make their followers aware that paying for sexual relations contributes directly to thousands of women being forced into prostitution

under threat of death for themselves and for their family.

In her speech, Delmas highlighted the threats, coercion, and mainly fear, experienced by these exploited women.

For clients who "only want to satisfy their sexual appetite," explains the chief inspector,

these women are "invisible victims" and the Police want them to be aware of their real situation

and for it to come to light, according to Europa Press.

The consequence of this fear, he added, is that many of them who get their pimps and the mafias to be tried, do not corroborate their testimony when they come to testify at the trials.

The Police indicate as a "stumbling block" also in these cases, the slowness of the Justice.

"The mafias objectify the victims and turn them into objects. If there is no demand, that money will never reach the mafias, which, in turn, would return to capture other girls," said Delmas.

As part of the campaign,

the National Police recalls that the telephone number 900 10 50 90

and the email treat@policia.es are active so that any citizen can provide information if they consider that they are aware of a case of human trafficking.

Both options, he explains, are free, confidential and managed directly by specialized agents.

In this sense, it points out that, since 2013, citizen collaboration through complaints made by these media has been key in police investigations related to this crime and in the liberation of the victims.

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