Physical and psychological violence and black magic rituals: this is how a criminal organization formed by Brazilian transgenders managed Castel Volturno, a municipality on the Caserta coast, the prostitution racket of the same trans, always coming from the South American country.
The Caserta Police discovered it, which began its investigations three years ago, coordinated by the Naples DDA, and today arrested and took eleven Brazilian transsexuals to prison. The crimes contested are serious: from criminal association aimed at reducing them to slavery, to human trafficking, to aiding illegal immigration.
The measures were issued by the investigating judge of the Naples court. A story that recalls the one, also discovered in Castel Volturno, of the trafficking of Nigerian women lured in their homeland and brought to Italy, where they were reduced to slavery and forced into prostitution, under the control of Nigerian criminal organizations that held them hostage also with voodoo rites.
For the Brazilian victims, more or less the same thing happened, as determined by the investigators of the Caserta Flying Squad, who in the garden of the home of one of the victims found the head of a statuette depicting a deity surrounded by fruit, apparently the key element of a black magic ceremony aimed at causing the death of the recipient of the rite and carried out by the members of the organization for punitive purposes.
The criminal group – it emerged – had its base in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where a contact was in charge of recruiting transgender people, who were hosted in some properties and induced to prostitute themselves in the Brazilian metropolis.
Once the time needed to obtain the documents for expatriation and the plane ticket, the costs of which were at this stage borne by the criminal organization, had passed, the victims of trafficking were sent to Italy, but only after having obtained the approval of the gang leader.
Once they landed at Milan Linate, they were picked up by other members of the organization who provided them with a fictitious declaration of hospitality, thus allowing them to enter and legally remain for tourism reasons on the national territory.
Then the transfer to Naples and from there by car to Castel Volturno, with segregation in an apartment and the prohibition of communicating with people other than the exploiters. The victims had their cell phones confiscated and a severe regime of conduct imposed.
Prostitution took place on the street, according to rigid time shifts and under the control of some members of the group. The proceeds of the activity were paid to the head of the organization as a settlement of the debt incurred to enter Italy, which was always more than 10.000 euros.
The transgenders who ran the illicit business lived a comfortable life thanks to the exploitation of other trans, with cars, houses and luxury clothes, jewelry. The investigations did not reveal any links with Italian organized crime.
Article published on 11 July 2023 - 21:55
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