Italian police has arrested a Nigerian lady for allegedly forcing younger girls and women who arrive from Nigeria, into prostitution through the use of voodoo regionally know as juju, as a risk. The suspect who's believed to be the Madame of a intercourse trafficking ring was arrested within the Puglia province of Foggia on Tuesday, police confirmed in a press release on Friday, February 17, 2023.  Flying squad police within the Sicilian metropolis of Siracusa, in collaboration with police in Foggia, have carried out an operation to arrest a Nigerian lady residing in Foggia. The arrest warrant was issued by a preliminary investigations choose (GIP) on February 8 in Catania, Sicily. The suspect, who's in pre-trial custody, allegedly organized a prostitution ring, recruiting younger girls in Nigeria and forcing them to work as prostitutes in Italy, in response to investigators. In accordance with police, the younger girls and women had been pressured into prostitution utilizing deceit and voodoo rituals, with loss of life threats towards the victims and their households. The suspect allegedly satisfied the victims to flee detention scenters after their arrival in Italy and to work for her by intimidating them by way of juju rites (also called voodoo rites). The Nigerian citizen faces fees together with human trafficking, enslavement, aggravated by the truth that a few of her alleged victims had been minors, in addition to threatening their lives and bodily integrity by inducing them to journey from Nigeria to Italy by way of a deadly Mediterranean crossing, underneath the management of criminals who abused them, investigative sources stated. She can be accused of contributing to commit a criminal offense organized by a transnational organized felony group, aiding and abetting unlawful immigration, intercourse trafficking and cash laundering. The investigation, coordinated by DDA anti-mafia investigators in Catania, began after a younger Nigerian lady landed on the industrial port of Augusta (Sicily) in July 2016 and advised authorities that she had travelled by bus from Nigeria to Libya after which crossed the Mediterranean to achieve Italy by taking over a debt of 30,000 in "journey bills". Throughout her interval of "detention" in Libya, the lady stated she had discovered that she can be pressured to work as a prostitute in and that she had been bodily and mentally abused by the boys watching her. After her arrival in Italy, she requested police for assist, investigative sources stated.  Watch video from the arrest beneath..     The submit Nigerian woman arrested in Italy for allegedly forcing young women and girls into prostitution by threatening them with 'Juju' (video) appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.