Women found captive in Macedonian cellar.

Video evidence of women being held captive in underground rooms and forced into prostitution in Macedonia has been shown to the British newspaper The Telegraph. The video shows police raiding a bar and discovering a small trap door which leads to a secret room without heating or light where eight young women have been hidden. The women from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria had been told they would be given good jobs, but instead were imprisoned in a dirty cellar and forced to work as prostitutes. When they were let out they hardly knew where they were. This is the third such group of imprisoned women to have been found by police during recent raids in Tetovo, Gostivar and Struga, in western Macedonia, close to the Albanian border.
A spokesperson for the national police said;
“The traffickers wanted to hide their slaves in case the motel was raided and the cellar was also used to punish girls who did not do exactly as they were told,”
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