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Greece to crack down on sex traffickers
Helena Smith in Athens
Monday April 22, 2002
The Guardian
Greece is poised to pass draconian legislation to fight Europe's burgeoning trade in
people-trafficking, after revelations that one in two Greek men has used a sex slave.
Outrage at Greece's reluctance to combat the trade has been compounded by
growing evidence that the country is the transit route most favoured by traffickers
dealing in women and children.
Girls as young as 12, often abducted and then held in debt bondage, are among an
estimated 40,000 trafficked females serving more than a million Greeks - a third of
the sexually active male population - every year.
"Greece's geographic position as a frontier state, at the crossroads of east and west,
has made it the centre of trafficking in Europe," criminology professor Grigoris Lazos
said.
Most victims come from the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and, increasingly,
Africa. In Albania, Moldova, southern Bulgaria and Romania, entire towns have been
robbed of their young female populations, sociologists say. While some victims are
kidnapped at gunpoint, others are lured by promises of marriage, jobs and better
living conditions.
"At least one in two men, and half of all married men here, go with prostitutes who
are mainly foreign women forced into the sex trade," Thanos Askitis, a socialist MP
said.
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