"We have to persecute anyone who commits a crime without taking into account its origin, as we can".
This is how the PPRM spokesperson, Víctor Martínez, has replied to the regional deputy of Podemos, Andrés Pedreño, who has defined the police mechanism against trafficking in human beings carried out by the police this weekend in Cieza as a "racist macro raid".
Martínez explained that one can not be "selective" with those who commit crimes according to their origin, because of what the Government Delegate has defended "controlling those who want to take advantage of people who come from abroad and have difficulties in finding a job".
So he insisted that these people are an "easy target" for labor exploiters and that's why the police body conducts periodic inspections both in local hostesses as in locutarios, food and leisure premises in order to locate potential victims, obtain their statements and arrest those responsible for trafficking in human beings.
That is why, Víctor Martínez remarked, that the Police had the participation of the Labor Inspectorate who "went on to issue 12 acts for labor violations," and insisted "the police do not rule out new arrests of employers responsible for some of the workers identified in an illegal work situation, without being discharged and in conditions of abuse of their situation given their economic situation. "
Martinez has detailed that there have been two minor victims released, both of Moroccan nationality found in local alternate in the Region.
Both have said "are currently being treated by the Association for the Prevention, Reintegration and Care of Prostituted Women, (APRAMP) so that investigations have been initiated in order to identify those responsible and practice the appropriate arrests."
Source: PP Región de Murcia