In an operation involving Interpol and the Romanian and British police, leading members of a Roma gang that has imported hundreds of child beggars into Britain have been arrested.The arrests were made in a small Romanian town said to have grown rich from the criminal proceeds of child gangs operating across the European Union (EU).
It is alleged that young Roma children in particular were bought or kidnapped from rural Romania and then trained to beg, steal or work as prostitutes, before being taken to various European destinations including Britain to ply their ‘trades’.
Some parents are, reportedly, willing to sell their children to the traffickers for as little as $200 USD.
In some cases it is known that kidnapped and purchased children have been deliberately mutilated by adult gang masters so as to play on the public’s compassion, thereby increasing the ‘take’, when begging.
According to police, a single child-trafficking gang based in Tandarei, a town in southern Romania, has sent over 160 children to work the streets of London in recent years.
Once in London and other major British cities, the children are forced to beg and steal from passers-by or offer sexual services, handing the proceeds to their adult controllers.
It is reported that Scotland Yard assisted Romanian police in helping to track down the criminals behind the child-trafficking in an operation funded by the EU, rather than the Romanian authorities.
In effect this means that British, French and German taxpayers have met the cost of the operation.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard is reported as saying: “The aim is to bring people to justice for human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable members of the Roma community”, which is all very laudable but doesn’t mention seeking justice for the British victims of these imported criminals.
Tandarei is also alleged to be the hometown of 15 Romanian children apprehended in Manchester last year whom, amongst other offences, are said to have been involved in perpetrating cashpoint distraction thefts in the city.
Although some of the children taken into police custody have now been sent back to Romania, the remainder have been placed in care by social services and maintained at the expense of the British taxpayer — why the Romanian authorities aren’t taking responsibility for the welfare of their young citizens is a question that remains unanswered.
It is further claimed by social workers in Austria, a country that has been experiencing this problem far longer than most because of its geographical proximity to Romania, that some Roma communities actually punish families that refuse to rent their child to traffickers.
As Romania is a member of the EU, it is nigh on impossible to legally ban its citizens from entering Britain, even if they are known to have criminal records.
This economic basket case of a country is yet another drain on the British taxpayers’ purse, proving once again that Britain must adopt BNP policy and lose no time in quitting the EU.
BNP NEWS TEAM
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