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reporter every weekend on d w. ah aah! 12 year old lun suffers from heart disease despite that she's forced to work illegally in the gym and kept berlin. her stories spunk, a major criminal investigation and trial. the author of this documentary has gained access to case files. young land is just one of many have fallen victim to human traffic is ah ah

ah ah, then shall we begin. actually give a shit our and jay and his gang had links to the vietnamese human trafficking mafia . they transported hundreds of vietnamese nationals from lithuania to been in via rosul of chicago. picking a drug about renewed i would never strike one of them japanese, i'm afraid it might kill them more. well, their chinese poly 40 to 50 kilos chops. part of the,

the procedure to maximize sticks, which of yours will, of all those we transported are there were just a few that were heavier hours other than the rest were so skinny, especially the boys. there weren't many girls who are justin doesn't bottles on marbles. wilson, but it doesn't national, there's not enough awareness in germany about human smuggling, especially when it comes to trafficking from viet nam year on year. we see an increase. the number of vietnamese on paper often have been 2 horrendous experiences. one cannot so, but i describe it as modern day slavery. marcus fall is with the german federal

police. he's in charge of fighting, organized crime in central germany, an expert in human trafficking. he's been trying for years to crack the vietnamese organized crime networks. does the doesn't, doesn't in that snack these networks operate on a very hierarchical basis when they are highly professional and cooperate in other forms of organized crime or criminal activities or nicotine. the traffic us have been smuggling vietnamese national st. poland for years. thousands have been brought to germany along this rich and polish customs officers rarely uncovered these smuggling operations most make it through that, including many young people and children children such as 12 year old lamb. she was smuggled over the polish border into germany in august 2015 1000000000 authorities never investigated where she was held in poland or for how long

i can hear this building right here. thank god. this is where they were initially held will g gotcha. of all the bus parked here and then came a text we're here. yes. a messenger? yes we're one of my drivers would arrive is reco share of am. i wake up and after a few minutes they came out. this entrance here under staggered like a physical genital plano, how many would you losing it was always different ball game show 257 of the girls women 2, would you young wardrobe's original letter back only? well, still young with them. it's hard to tell whether they're older young about those mortgage, only a started in the to me, did you know they were a lot of miners among the smuggler vietnamese, or i don't know. it's hard to tell inquiry if they're so small and frail in ashburn, so small marble and black markets,

i mean the hair. otherwise they're yellow. probably chew is one of many smuggled in by on jay he was brought from his away near to warsaw where he went underground. i'm feel calmer when i'm throwing something at this. her have me calmer. john lives in constant fear of the human traffickers in viet nam. he lived with his grandmother. his parents are dead and then his grandmother died to he eat out and living

collecting muscles, snails, driftwood, and plastic bottles. volley, we're mainly we not only solidly the r t i was 15, ma'am. a man came to me and asked if i'd like to have a job. oh and make a lot of money. oh, it was a short conversation with him and he spoke very pleasantly and friendly. oh well i was just a kid. well, i didn't owe anything boy shall fall. so i did what he told me, then uncle, that they didn't explain what kind of work and for how long has been like, only that, i'd be moving to germany though i am noting south in this and only with the human smuggling route from vietnam to poland. like most of his compatriots, john travelled across russia to the baltic nations and then to poland. along the

way, he was held in abandoned warehouses, sometimes locked in for weeks at a time. sure, isn't sure exactly way. i jump of his and i am home. the beetle was on during those times. i couldn't go outside it. don't get nowhere in churchill dolly. nay. the gallows young are the whole day in those warehouses. that billing late morning, noon, afternoon and night. in my new my hour i heard from others that we were in russia laying lake, a young lea. i asked the vietnamese there if i could go outside. he said, no, don't go outside, i own own get not in the day he told me that another guy tried to escape. one was shot in the leg. ah, hello. i didn't ask any more questions, dana, and didn't dare even to think about it any more, either a thump, and from there, if it were from with way near. we brought them here. i mean,

we were there at the time we put them in the buses. will tucker, but i would like to get lunches of how many can you fit inside those kinds of buses? also, if you go it depends. you have to call the one of my men was apprehended. it was roger here, 12 of them thought i had no idea that on a shelf we had agreed on 8, but they gave him 12. you need valesh. ah, that 40000 vietnamese live in the polish capitol. it's one of the biggest communities in eastern europe. whistle is a thriving hub, the human trafficking between viet, mann and western europe. for example, we brought 20 to 30 people here to this house here that were directly to the

trading center road to this temple here from the we drove them. but on the they came here to pray human. and where did they go from here to show this was yourself, the law of chicago, france, for instance, or berlin donna. let's go to the next. as john was being transported to germany, the driver lost control of the mini van just before the border. there were serious injuries in the accident. the driver and all on board were arrested including 8 miners, boys and girls. it was the start of a major investigation by polish authorities. john was a star witness and gave comprehensive testimony. ah, a. i'm still afraid a guy next to me, hit his head against something on there was blood all over his face. mom, it still frightens me another. so the human traffic is cell

phones were confiscated and the data analyzed, including gps data authorities, were able to piece together the smuggling brutes. well, over $100.00 smuggling operations were carried out within 8 months. using 3 vehicles. angie was the lead driver, a vietnamese national, living in warsaw, contacted angie in his to accomplices to transport illegals to germany. in minivans the polish smugglers received about $500.00 euros per person. 12 year old land made it to berlin. she lived in a high rise in the martsen district with the vietnamese man who she described to authorities as her father, an intentional deceit. her actual parents remain in viet nam

a few days later, another vietnamese girl arrived here, also claiming that the man was her father. german federal police apprehended the 15 year old on the polished bought up. ah, it's a problem. federal authorities are increasingly confronted with cases involving the smuggling of young vietnamese boys and girls have increased dramatically over the past few years. those who are apprehended and up at emergency facilities meet the border like this one in iceland hood which that with sauces in emergency child protection services near the border tell us that most of the children who are brought here quickly disappear. busy busy busy ah. busy busy no one was willing to speak to

us officially, but one caseworker described the situation under the condition that he remain anonymous. busy of deals, police problem has been recognized for a long time to wish flores, i, his smugglers, bring them to germany, and the few that are apprehended abroad to austin, to rent an erect soon and more often than not. they disappear from this facility after one or 2 hours. my gosh, one can get 40 things into your steinway storm was posted and then you have you listened. and from this we have to file a missing persons report by the police unexplored. but most of the time, nothing happens. unfortunately, if a german child goes missing, there's a massive effort to locate them. but nothing gets done when it's a young vietnamese and christian associate annex. but the question is, how many vietnamese young people have gone under the radar? in germany, where are they and what happens to them?

we researched those questions, the months, making hundreds of inquiries. what we discovered is a state of absolute chaos among the responsible agencies. conflicting answers, contradictory statistics. one thing is sure, hundreds are unaccounted for with most of those thought to be in berlin. and the numbers have been growing for years. but on go to why aren't police looking for them? is the search for missing illegals only becomes active when certain criteria are met. for instance, if there's the possibility that someone's in danger and that metric doesn't apply to young vietnamese and bite him. but usually this danger doesn't apply when it comes to the missing vietnamese young people who've been smuggled in probably the furnished so 1000000000 criminal authorities see no danger. and at the same time, vietnamese children are disappearing all over europe. in france,

belgium and the netherlands mainly are as you who kirsty elaine, a naval j, a goal would open from the english here, 67 young vietnamese disappeared from high security facilities like this one in the netherlands. journalists santa telling an uncovered the story. she's been investigating the facial refugee minus in europe for years. we were looking for a story that won't reveal and what kind of problems there were. and to show that there was really a problem and we started to look into that sheltered at was most protected. we have 2 of them in the netherlands, one in the north, and one in the south, both at secret locations, tooling and is the 1st journalist in the netherlands to investigate these secret facilities. i got loads of internal documents so i

could learn a lot from that. they place and night watch in front of the building. they locked the windows, but what they see is that the children still nice from the kitchen to break open the windows. they spray perfume on the fire alarm, which makes the door and goes open. and vehicles were already waiting outside these high secu. she facilities are, what you could see is that it looks like they disappear voluntarily because they go away by themselves. but the pressure on them is so high because they have to pay depths. and today's traffic girl in depth reporting at least a wave of outrage in the netherlands. the government reacted by launching a wide ranging investigation who biagspraya is telling his boss. he was surprised at the results of the investigation almost. within the last i give the bottom line of the report was that many,

many vietnamese miners have simply disappeared. it's really been more than our own research uncovered. you to be precise and fully 97 percent of those registered as minors in the netherlands have disappeared without a trace. i good the all because they are miners, they should receive special protection in the netherlands and others. paula's which one it's the same story in germany. the disappearance of young vietnamese is precisely planned and executed as a sign. so as he looks as if these miners have very precise instructions that they adhere to this and they know who to contact and where they have to go, was there a meeting points and things like that, or some of them are picked up directly outside our facility. so it on all tools alabama when you were in berlin her yes, yes so but where exactly how strauser or something like that of i show number 128 and from that i know for sure. so what was it, some kind of house, what was their club houses for vietnamese clubs?

exactly. and there was a tram line on the street from where we drove inside the 1st gate that i still remember with a more than thormeyer or for a full year bright trans. sure that we entered through a gate after driving past an old house for the 1st restaurant on the left. and there should be a yellow, a vietnamese restaurant to dorothy, our full understanding of that's where we let them out. tom with us. i won't. and that's where they were picked up the computer at the 1st restaurant turn. ah lines. suppose it father is one of those who made the pickups. berlin, police had him and his accomplices under surveillance, and were monitoring their communications. in

fact, berlin and polish authorities were investigating the same smuggling ring, but they weren't sharing their findings. there was no co operation whatsoever, despite the fact that the missing points for traffic is, were an open secret. senior management at the detention facilities confirmed that they would cases if human trafficking, once policeman formed security, the facilities was increased. you bought tct core yet louise. human trafficking runs through these hubs is saved always. they have safe houses where basic needs are taken care of or fire a safe house as a usually rented apartments, mostly larger apartments. they are sublet through people who belong to the smuggling network, or through 3rd parties who apparently have nothing to do with the illegal activity here. and these apartments are used as a cover for human trafficking. good. ah none and her alleged sister lived at one of these safe houses. their proportion

father also brought other trafficking victims. from the dawn, sean sent her to the apartment whither were held captive. sometimes they were kept for weeks until smuggling payments were completed. often up to 5 people lived here at the same time. ah yeah, my fellow couldn't believe movie or even right here in berlin, we investigated cases where smugglers put people in the safe houses and. and they were only allowed to leave once the smuggling fee and was paid off. the familiar are usually it was the family back in vietnam who paid one past slogged us. there were cases where payments weren't kept up with, and that's when the abuse started as a means of pressuring the family to pay the remaining balance. the license to retention etzky is with ex pat, a world wide network of organizations who advocate for children's rights. a pat has

sponsored the most comprehensive study to date of trade with lead amazed miners in europe. i investigated se smugglers charged between $5.00 and $20000.00 to transport people from viet nam to germany. that's far more than most families can afford. first, it's almost a 1000. the money has to come from somewhere and the smugglers demand payment no thumbs up. yes. and then they have to work it off before they are exploited and forced to work that's. that's what happens. and who do they work for it for the traffic as it was before they have to work off their debts. this is, this dependent relationship doesn't end once the debt has been settled and most often it continues because the victims find themselves trapped in a kind of downward spiral mountains. how do we actually define human trafficking? and how does that differ from smuggling york humor and zakowski is the

leading expert in the study of human trafficking in germany. he's a professor at martin luther university in ha, written bag mentor, humble as horseman, troy. some human trafficking is usually connected to smuggling, but the term implies forced exploitation liaison contorted. illegal smuggling is defined as transporting people into a country illegally. the hours for it on to the goal of human trafficking is exploitation order. people are sold or recruited without any say in where they'll end up boy a to they aren't asked would because it's a done deal by law and 4. they are treated as objects around a mean not as people with right and a person, middle englishman. those who are recruited in viet nam, are victimized long before they reach germany,

like do you, where do they work? she or they work as taylors who we are here. they so close or like here, for example, whole trucks full of clothes, and they, so them all of his go illegally. they're all illegal singular garden, you should have crossed the border illegally for lunch. so that means they're sewing illegally to pay on their dads every or forward from here. oh, at this spot in 2017 polish authorities fried vietnamese slave laborers from his sewing factory. among them with children and minus partial profile until they worked off their debts. it doesn't matter where they are in poland, germany, france, or elsewhere response or hampshire to their new river oxygen. they have to work off their deaths in nuclear. it's logical of the ocean resolve us. all right, so they sit down and get to work today. charlotte, edmond, southern galks,

or can't take it any more things get physical staggering that they would all be talking to good with to hold you, go and question. the smuggling mafia attracts its victims with much sweeter visions of a bright future. ah, i mimi do. the daughter vietnamese refugees was born in the us. she moved to handle a years ago to lead the fight against human traffickers and their brutal methods. much of the mafia's recruitment is done by social media. so social media, i promise you the world and wonderful salaries and also the ability to bring your families over again. and what do such also look like, files that this is an advertisement of work to work in finland and you're being promised monthly salary between 18022500 euros,

which is 50 to 60000000 get done per month. it's only by 8 hours working per day, 6 days a week, the employer will pay for all the meals, insurance, personal income taxes. have you also found host mentioned in germany as a destination country? definitely. for sure. those lofty promises meet with harsh reality. here at berlin's battenberg train station though she had heart problems, land was forced to sell cigarettes. hey, boss was the human traffic of that city authorities believed was her father. in response to questions, the berlin agency responsible for education and families, confirmed many young vietnamese have been arrested on charges of a legal tried in cigarettes in summer 2019 berlin. law enforcement also confirmed the existence of criminal gangs who smuggled children and mine is to gemini for exploitation.

the 1st news accounts made headlines across europe. the interior committee of villains house of representatives named a chief investigative for organized crime. but he assured the public that no human trafficking was taking place in the gym and capitol the criterion for as far as we're concerned in the criteria for human trafficking in the context of smuggling aren't fulfilled in most cases, efforts, de indigo, those who put their trust in smuggling networks know beforehand that they will naturally have to earn some money. does he have not money that might not be available before the smuggling began? since i want to begin nationalism, they know that the smuggling network will give them opportunities to work to earn money, which in turn is returned to the smuggling rang. it's a butch huffman, but it may seem like exploitation some feast,

but it doesn't have to be void of her, so i am. must albany sh. ah, man's alleged sister was 15 years old and worked as a man, a curious for $300.00 euros a month. i wrote the number of vietnamese run now studious has grown exponentially over the past few years. it's a lucrative side hustle of the human traffic is illegal employment exploitation, inhumane working conditions. going incidents of illicit labor being reported in many german cities. including dormant keyson essence and wooster. more and more often when police and customs officials ride nail studios, they find undocumented vietnamese nationals, including numerous minors. for instance, in the town of fulda, in the state of hessen,

the armed is on some control in august. i'm certain that our nail studio raids only uncovered the tip of the iceberg. all these are selective raids versus flesh. we believe that miners are being forced to work in nail studios all across germany, which was comb alonzo now investigations and interrogations. point to a central point of reference anywhere, landed for door from there with somebody at the means. laborers are sent throughout germany to work in nail studios. and in august to joe's of ours, of dying assets be in great britain as well. the number of vietnamese run nail studios is growing rapidly and he to police writes, often turn up undocumented miners when he don't even know where they are or how they got they how did you leave it?

how did you get here? what about the trip changing? even though, when i was brought here from vietnam in trucks, i don't know how many countries we drove through, or how many times we changed vehicles. the next one was dependent, held captive, exploited by schuman traffic. his year on year we said increasing the number of de abbas, and i will be expected to work incredibly long hours. hello, autopay and a forced to do it as well. the british government ordered the comprehensive inquiry in hopes of gaining insight into the vietnamese human trafficking network. the investigation was led by debbie beetle of the children's rights organization act. pat, the results released in 2019 showed that many of the victims were brought to britain via germany. this chaskin vietnamese people has been

identified age kind of really the last 10 years. and what we need to really look at is amount of money that's being made. you know, these traffic is making quite huge amounts of money. you know, and really we need to be making sure that we are preventing this from happening. the victims of being supported vaughn will, people are being supported and that these people are prosecuted for crimes or they've committed so great britain handles this problem much differently than germany. in such cases, nail studio owners can be convicted of crimes related to shooting trafficking. oh, that's possible because of the modern slavery act voted into law by the british parliament in 2015. the bill be now read the 3rd time frame here is that opinion say, ah, of the country?

no. the eyes have it. the eyes harbor, speak of the injustice to resume than interior minister champion the legislation as an effective way to combat human trafficking. and then one slave react was a really good step in the u. k. to try and tackle the issue of i'm human trafficking and we have seen it and bring in and further support for police and kind of made it simpler for them to be active prosecutions of trafficking him on slavery, the national crime agency in london. britain's lead agency in the fight against organized crime and human trafficking. robert richardson that leads a special unit dedicated to combating human trafficking. he coordinates all investigations currently underway nationwide allow victims of slavery, a forced air commonality. and what was preventing those victims coming false?

law enforcement was fear of been prosecuted themselves. and so the new legislation, clothes a provision for those crimes that have been committed and forcibly. and so that encourages victims to come forward much more readily than they would have done previously. standardized criteria, fish, human trafficking, centralized registration, victims with these guidelines in place, the scope of the problem is becoming more clear. the numbers are rising, especially among the domains. nearly $900.00, a documented each year. girls and boys, half of them under 18 many of them were apprehended in a legal cannabis farms like this one children working as virtual slaves for the drug cartels. there is

a significant number of kind of his forms that are run by vietnamese organizations . so we, we recognize that often is, you know, young young men, you know, from age 15, generally a coat coerced into tendon and growing plants to working conditions in canada, fobs incredibly dangerous their prey. her anderson hover conditions, say they are often a one of them. i'm sleeping on the floor where there be bought takeaways or food either a daily basis. so a few days at a time and they have their salon. if i ponce, i'm it, the smell is quite strong. there's lots of chemicals on that. the water, a born in a small village, we were very poor. now this video was released by it in an effort to make the british public aware of what it calls modern day slavery, forced upon vietnamese children. one day

a man came and said he had worked for me abroad and that i could send money back home with. it was like a dream come true. but when we arrived in great britain, he brought us into a big apartment in a city. we were told to look after the plans, he said we owed him money and that if we tried to run away, he'd kill us. nick pat, also launched campaigns like this one to inform the british press about this growing problem. in the meantime, british authorities have taken a hard line against human traffickers in stark contrast to germany. currently, when we look at modern slavery investigations, there's a total of approximately 1900 investigations on off those, you know, several 100 will be specifically targeting criminal exploit ation. which includes,

you know, kind of his farms that kind of bud, bye vietnamese victims of traffic. but germany polish officials have also been covered, illegal cannabis farms run by vietnamese, along with the mostly young workers house to care for the crops. ah, medical picky drugs, medical marijuana and methamphetamines and smuggling and smuggling and it's the same people who do those sound. yes, they're one in the same. yeah. not the summer. and where does the product end up door lin marine ah,

one of the suspects is lance purported father. he allegedly picks up smuggled people in mosul along with chris to met the sam in the gym capital. oh, yeah. and, and whether it's the sale of drugs, all the production of narcotics i, these are among the lines of tre declined by the vietnamese organizing crime syndicates, went on and smuggling serves the purpose here, as well as harsh as it sounds. they are a continuing supply of human resources like mom, the organized criminal gangs bring the mean for use in their other spheres of activity. not his mind. simply and dominant influence open a case of human trafficking 100 as a classic case of human trafficking. the british embassy and berlin, january 2020 a workshop sponsored by the u. s. based pacific link foundation. deep fung spearheads this international charity. on this day,

she's making clear the dimensions of human trafficking of vietnamese to europe, british belgian and german investigate his own attendance. great britain, success in combating the smugglers is the central theme. bot sebastian, now down of berlin's criminal justice agency, thinks it's unwise for countries to compare strategies. it has every nation has different legal definitions of smuggling and human traffic cancelled. and that means we have to be very careful as it was in this context. when can we can't simply compare the justice systems of other european countries with each other and under fog light. in 2005, germany signaled its support for an international law that codified a definition of human trafficking. it was sponsored by the european council. kevin holland was a chief inspector for scotland jot and britain's 1st independent anti slavery commissioner. now he's in charge of monitoring observance of the european councils

. human trafficking convention. every countries definition should come from the council. you're a convention and i know they're all differences technically. and there were differences in psalm interpretation, but ultimately the definition created by the counsel your convention and the international instruments clearly lays our crime is and that's what country will be assessed on. highland believes germany hasn't yet lived up to its commitments. he adds the european council report of 2019 clearly highlights the weak points. there is not a national process, but supporting victims also the positive charity to investigate crimes. so there is a proactive investigation that should happen. i also think there are, you know, areas that are missing like an independent rapid toro commissioner, someone to look at the stitch you ation across germany. and you know,

then that consistency oh, monitoring over a period of years. germany's lexical response to the problem plays directly into the hands of the human traffickers. in berlin, stone, john center land was forced to work as a messenger transporting thousands of euros for the criminal gangs. hipaa put his system, worked as a waitress. the exploitation of vietnamese mine is continues to take place before our very eyes and yet berlin authorities are skeptical as to whether the young victims trudy are under age and it's in suffering useless. a large number of the vietnamese that we take in the custody claim that they are under 18 ot seeley. in reality, it's a different story was, does view in our experience. and we've come to the conclusion that the large majority of smuggled vietnamese who say they are miners of us aren't actually under

age, which was given position as me. me know, you like and october 2019 on the outskirts of london. these victims would definitely minus boys and girls in a smuggling operation going wrong. fishing 9 people died of 60 ation in the back of a truck all with vietnamese one of the victims. it was the 17 year old boy. his friend had just turned 18 when he died. 12 days before, both of them disappeared from a facility in the netherlands. they were in germany before embarking on the journey, the cost them their lives. the hum, usually they lived in this house for a few months, was once where they were brought here after police pulled them out of the back of a truck or touched is a truck was from germany, land and the people found in this truck were loaded into it near cologne at aaron cone and is industrial understanding. shortly before she died, one of the victims wrote a note to her mother back home. ah

this is somebody dying? and yet there was no blaming the network. no blaming anybody who sold tar that ticket. no saying things i, i wish i didn't do this in the end it was just, i'm sorry, this is, i'm not making it. so the smartest something that we work well it's, it's the cultural weapon that they wield very adept lay.

right. and they keep people and that bondage they are able to make sure that people shut up and never tell the neighbors about the treacherous journey that they've been on news to day june leaves illegally in warsaw. a polish court sentenced on j to 3 used in 6 months in prison on charges connected to human trafficking. ah, lands fate is unclear. head purported father was arrested in berlin on smuggling charges and sentenced to 3 years in prison. but the term human trafficking is no way to be found in his court. false the official records, the 2019 showed that there were only 7 cases of human trafficking of vietnamese in

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