it is okay, i let me at the, i think at my age and with these limitations on it, they will, i have to pace myself a bill, but in order to be able to serve the church. oh yeah, godaddy or i will consider the possibility of stepping aside farmers up out of they know you're watching d. w news up next a d, w documentary on child trafficking. the gang to trade in people. that's it. from me . a michael. okay. from me in the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for spending this part of your day with us and will be bringing you more news at the beginning of the next hour stated ah, i, what people have to say matters to us. ah,

that's why we listen to their stories. 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 story sparked 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, shall we begin? actually get his baton unchained, 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, talking ga. gov. i renewed. i would never strike one of them. jones. i'm afraid it might kill them more well, their chinese poly 40 to 50 kilos tops particular project for maximizing

sticks. which of yours will, of all those we transported, or there were just a few that were heavier because a lot of the rest were so skinny, especially the boys. there weren't many girls who are different from bottles of marble floor, brush, indoors and hash. there's not enough awareness in germany about human smuggling, especially when it comes to traffic any from viet nam year on year we see an increase. the number of vietnamese asian paper often have been to have endless experiences on kind of 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 with dr. doesn't he nasdaq, these networks operate on a very hierarchical basis when they're highly professional and cooperate in other forms of organized crime or criminal activities or nicotine. the traffic has have been smuggling vietnamese national st. poland for years thousands have been brought to germany along this rich and polish customs office is 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 come here this building right here to try to call her. this is where they were initially held till g. bushes of all the bus parked here and then came a text we're here. yes. a messenger. yes. or one of my drivers would arrive is rochel share of am news waykell by and after a few minutes they came out this entrance here to luther finance. i got for the community plan, how many would you losing it was always different ball game true to $57.00 of the girls, women 2, would you young more hoops or was you know, rather back only well so young with them. it's hard to tell whether they're older young women, to place more than she only has started in the to me. did you know there were a lot of miners among the smuggler to vietnamese runner? i don't know. it's hard to tell. are you there so, so allan frales and ashburn, so small and black, i mean the hair, otherwise,

their yellow ribbon too, is one of many smuggled in by on jay he was broad from lithuania to warsaw, where he went underground and feel calmer when and throwing something at his the have me come john lives in constant fear of the human traffickers in viet nam. he lived with his grandmother, his parents, a dead. and then his grandmother died too. he eat out a living,

collecting muscles, snails, driftwood, and plastic bottles. only when lamely, we normally sell to a r t. i was 15, ma'am. a man came to me and asked if i'd like to have a job and make a lot of money. oh, it was a short conversation with him and he spoke very pleasantly and friendly hung. why was just a kid? well, i didn't know 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 as you know, only that i'd be moving to germany though i am commuting sup 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 where i don't want his and am home. the beetle was on during those times. i couldn't go outside. i don't get nowhere. churchill dolly. nay. that goes on now the whole day in those warehouses. knowing like the morning noon afternoon and night, emma knew 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. now he told me that another guy tried to escape. one was shot in the leg. ah, hello. i didn't ask any more questions on it and didn't dare even to think about it anymore. like the sample. and from there, if it were from lithuania, we brought them here. i mean,

we were there at the time. we put them in the buses, will tucker, but i will tell you that you get lunch cuz how many can you fit inside those kinds of buses? also, if you go into it depends with one of my men was apprehended load. you see at 12 of them though, i had no idea of 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 for human trafficking between viet man and western europe. but also, for example, we brought 20 to 30 people here to this house here that was directly to the trading

center or to this temple here, something we drove them. but on the they came here to pray your mom and where did they go from here after? so this was just after all of chicago, france, for instance, or berlin not. let's go to dinner. as john was being transported to germany, the driver lost control of the minivan 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 bertha. a guy next to me, hit his head against something and there was blood all over his face. ma'am,

it still frightens me another the human traffic, a cell phones were confiscated and the data analyzed, including gps data authorities were able to piece together. the smuggling brutes will 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 mart sandy street 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 polish german. hey, 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 end up at emergency facilities need the border like this one in eisen wouldn't 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 ah. busy busy no one was willing to speak to

was to officially, but one case where could described the situation under the condition that he remain anonymous. as a dealer publish problem has been recognized for a long time. to wish flores, i, his smugglers, bring them to germany, and a few that are apprehended abroad to adam, to run an erect too, and more often than not, they disappear from this facility after one or 2 hours. my gosh, phone can get phone calls and she or sign of a storm was proceed and then have you listened on from this? we have to file a missing persons report with the police unexplored, but most of the time, nothing happens. unfortunately for 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 is the possibility that someone's endangered 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 finished 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. i mean, they are, as you who kirsty alena natal check, goldman, oklahoma 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 will reveal and what kind of problems there were. and to show that there was really a problem 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 a south, both at secret locations telling 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 security 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 v dash i gave the bottom line of the

report was that many, many vietnamese minors had simply disappear. i was really more than our own research uncovered as you to be precise and fully 97 percent of those registered as minors in the netherlands have disappeared without a trace. i get the all because they are miners. they should receive special protection in the netherlands. isn't alicia? paula's was one. it's the same story in germany. the disappearance of young vietnamese is precisely planned and executed as will shineseal, as it looks as if these miners have very precise instructions that they adhere to this and i 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 facilities would form all tools alabama when you were in berlin her yes yes is albany where exactly how strauser or something like that of i show number 128, and from that i know for sure, you know, 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 or from where we drove inside the 1st gate that i still remember with a more than provider or form or if you are a bright tramp so 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 are full of historical. that's where we let them out. thomas with a vowel, and that's where they were picked up the computer at the 1st restaurant turn. ah, lines supposed 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 went 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 there were cases of human trafficking. once policeman formed security, the facilities was increased. but he's a take or yet louise, human track picking runs through these hubs. he says how they have safe houses where basic needs are taken care of or fire. the safe houses are usually rented. apartments, mostly larger apartments, their sublet, through people who belong to the smuggling network, or through 3rd parties who apparently have nothing to do with the illegal activities. and these apartments are used as a cover for human trafficking. good. ah none and her little sister lived at one of these safe houses. their proportion

father also brought other trafficking victims from the dom, schwann center, to the apartment where they 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, yes, my fellow clarendon will via 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 figure was paid off. the familiar are usually it was the family back in vietnam, who paid on this slide because 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 ek, 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 vietnamese minors. in europe, 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. from saint augustine 1000. the money has to come from somewhere and the smugglers demand payment. no, i'm good. yes. and then they have to work it off before they are exploited and forced to work that's, that's what happened with them. and who did 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?

your humor and zukowski is the leading expert in the study of human trafficking in germany. he's a professor at martin luther university in hollow written bag. men shall, humble as horsemen 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 see the goal of human trafficking is exploitation order. people are sold or recruited without any say in where they'll end up. boy think they aren't asked would because it's a done deal by law and for they are treated as objects around be 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 to ship go illegally. they're all illegal singular garden, you should, they've crossed the border illegally for muslim. 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 a sewing factory. among them with children and minus profile until they worked off their debts. it doesn't matter where they are in poland, germany, france, or elsewhere, polished or to answer to that river oxygen. they have to work off their debts in nuclear. it's logical to ocean resolve forward. so they sit down and get to work today. sure, sure. and when someone galks or can't take it any more,

things get physical staggering that they would all be talking to get a hold you go and caution the smuggling mafia attracts its victims with much sweet of visions of upright people. i mean the do, the daughter of 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 of much of the mafia is recruitment is done via social media. so social media, i promise you the world and wonderful salaries and also the ability to bring your families over again. this and what do such also look like files. this is an advertisement of work to work in finland and you are being promised monthly salary, between 18 hundreds of $2500.00 euros,

which is $50.00 to $60000000.00 in i'm done per month. it's only by 8 hours working per day as 6 days a week. the employer will pay for all the mules insurance, personal income taxes. have you also found hosts mentioned in germany as the destination country? definitely they for sure. those lofty promises meet with harsh reality here at berlin's wattenberg train station. though she had heart problems, line was forced to sell cigarettes. her boss was the human traffic 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 illegal tried in cigarettes. in summer 2019 berlin. law enforcement also confirmed the existence of criminal gangs who smuggle children and one is to germany for exploitation.

the 1st news accounts made headlines across europe. the interior committee of berlin's house of representatives named a chief investigator for organized crime. but he assured the public that no schumann 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 that filled in most cases of food, stay indigo. those who put their trust in smuggling networks know beforehand that they will naturally have to earn some money. does he not money that might not be available before the smuggling began? since i want to begin this wasn't, they know that the smuggling network will give them opportunities to work lucky to earn money, which in turn is returned to the smuggling rang. it's of which often both it may seem like exploitation pleased, but it doesn't have to be void of her son,

muscle vanish. ah lans. a legend sister was 15 years old and worked as a manor curious for $300.00 euros a month. right. the number of vietnamese run now studios has grown exponentially over the past few years. it's a lucrative side hustle of the human traffickers. illegal employment exploitation, inhumane working conditions. going incidents of illicit labor a being reported in many german cities, including dormant, keyson essence and wooster. more and more often, when police and customs officials raid nail studios, they find undocumented vietnamese nationals, including numerous minors. for instance, in the town of fulda,

in the state of hessen, rhonda johnson control it in august. i'm certain that our nail studio raids only uncovered the tip of the iceberg. all these are selected braids versus flesh. we believe that miners are being forced to work in nail studios all across germany. just gone alonzo now investigations and interrogations, point to a central point of reference in berlin date for door from there with somebody in the means. laborers are sent throughout germany to work in nail studios. and in august we'll joe's of the hours of diagnosis. 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. many don't even know where they are or how they got there. i believe is,

how did you get here? what about the trip it? 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 vixen wasn't 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 for low autopay and a false to the rates 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, the children's rights organization ex 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 the map money has been 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 if the modern slavery act voted into law by the british parliament in 2015, the bill be now read the 3rd time. it's right here. is that opinion say, ah,

of the country? no. the eyes have it. the eyes hunger because the injustice to resume than interior minister champion the legislation as an effective way to combat human trafficking. and the monthly 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 after 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 and why nationwide allow victims of slavery a forced into commonality. and what was prevent in those victims coming for law

enforcement was fear of being prosecuted themselves. and so the new legislation, clues, a provision for those crimes that have been committed forcibly. and so that encourages victims to come forward much more readily than they would have done previously. standardized criteria for 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, and the 18 many of them are apprehended in a legal cannabis farms like this one. children working is virtual slice for the drug cartels. there is

a significant number of kind of his farms that are run by vietnamese organizations . so we, we recognize that often it is, you know, young man, you know, from age 15, generally a coke coerced into tendon and growing plants to working conditions in canada, farms incredibly dangerous that pray, henderson, hovel, conditions say they are often in one room a, sleeping on the floor where there be bought takeaways or food either daily basis. so a few days at a time. and they have their surrounded by ponce, i'm at the smell is quite strong as lots of chemicals on that is watching those plans. there be lights on them a lot of times again, you know, almost like tortuous conditions where they don't know when he's day or night. ah, my name is han, i'm 15 years old. born in a small village we were very poor. ah,

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 plants, he said we owed him money and that if we tried to run away, he'd kill us. it had 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 targeted criminal exploitation, which includes, you know, kind of his farms that kind of money by vietnamese victims of traffic. but german and polish officials have also been covered, illegal cannabis farms run by vietnamese along with the mostly young workers have to care for the crops. ah, medical tricky drugs. medical or wanna and methamphetamines for me and smuggling and smuggling. and it's the same people who don't. yes,

they're one in the same yet. not to summer. and where does the product end up door, lynn? but lena, ah, one of the suspects is lance purported father. he allegedly picks up smuggled people in warsaw along with crystal, met for sale in the gym, and capital o, just beyond. and whether it's the sale of drugs, old, the production of narcotics i, these are among the lines of trade declined by the vietnamese organized 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 mon, the organized criminal gangs. bring the mean for use in their other spheres of activity from dotted line, simply dominant. when finance 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 flung spearheads this international charity. on this day, he's making clear the dimensions of human trafficking of vietnamese to europe. british belgian and german investigators are in attendance. great britain success in combating the smugglers is a central fame. but sebastian, out on of berlin's criminal justice agency, thinks it's unwise for countries to compare strategies. yes, every nation has different legal definition of smuggling and human trafficking. and that means we have to be very careful as it was one in this context. when can we can't simply compare the justice systems of other european countries with each other and under for glazing. in 2005 germany signalled its support for an international law that codified

a definition of human trafficking. it was sponsored by the european council. kevin holland was the chief inspector for scotland jot. and britons 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 some interpretations, but ultimately the definition created by the counselor of your convention and the international instruments that clearly lays out well. a crime is a not well 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 no a national process, but supporting victims. also the positive duty to investigate crimes. so there is

a pro active 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 stick. 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. it, the quoted system worked as a waitress. the exploitation of vietnamese mine is continues to take place before our very eyes. and yet, belin authorities are skeptical as to whether the young victims, trudy are under age and a cancer for an anger. first, a large number of the vietnamese that we take into custody claim that they are

under 18 oxy neely. in reality, it's a different story was does view in our experience, 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. like i was given position, at least we know you'll accent october 2019 on the outskirts of london. these victims were definitely mine as boys and girls in a smuggling operation gone wrong. fishing 9 people died of 60 ation in the back of a truck all vietnamese, one of the victims. it was a 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 when 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 and i live on current and is industrial. i understand shortly before she died, one of the victims wrote a note to her mother back home. mm hm. ah, this is somebody dying. and yet, there was no blaming the network. no blaming anybody who sold her that ticket? no saying things like i wish i didn't do this in the n, it would just, i'm sorry,

this is i'm not making it. so the smartest lives other weapon. well it's, it's a cultural weapon that they wield very and that play 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 to day. june leaves illegally in warsaw. a polish court sentenced on j to 3 use in 6 months in prison on charges connected to human trafficking. ah, lance fate is unclear. her purported father was arrested in berlin on smuggling charges and sentenced to 3 years in prison. the term human trafficking is nowhere

to be found in his court house. the official records, the 2019 showed that there were only 7 cases of human trafficking, a vietnamese in germany. ah hm. what making the headlines and what's behind them. dw news africa. they show that the issue is shaping the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally on the

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