Of the ten "heads of networks" identified, eight people were arrested "last week", six in France and two in Spain.

A Nigerian prostitution network, partly based on the Côte d'Azur and which exploited dozens of women, was dismantled after more than a year of investigation, we learned from the police on Wednesday.

These five men and five women "routed" and "headed" the victims or "collected the money to send it to Nigeria," detailed Elvire Arrighi, head of the Central Office for the Suppression of Trafficking in Human Beings ( OCRTEH).

They "lived in slums"

In France, six of these people were indicted, in particular for “trafficking in human beings in an organized gang”.

Five of them were imprisoned, the other placed under judicial supervision as part of an investigation opened in Nice.

In all, more than thirty victims, young adult women from Nigeria, have been identified.

They "prostituted themselves on the public highway in Nice or Cannes" and "lived in slums", added Elvire Arrighi.

The case starts in June 2020 when a "victim" files a complaint in Nice, claiming to be "under the yoke of a network of pimps for several years", a network which recruited her in Nigeria.

She was first exploited in Italy, then fled to the south of France before being "caught by the network to which she owed 40,000 euros for her trip from Nigeria," said the head of OCRTEH .

Miscellaneous

An inmate managed a large pimping network from Nice prison

Justice

Her client refuses to pay, a 16-year-old prostitute files a complaint in Nice

  • Nigeria

  • Proxenetism

  • Prostitute

  • Spain

  • Miscellaneous

  • Nice

  • Prostitution