Human-trafficking inquiry nets 2,000
From Times Wire Reports
More than 2,000 people throughout Italy, most of them foreigners, have been accused of human trafficking after an investigation that uncovered minors and adults forced into prostitution and working in sweatshops, police said.
Most of the suspects and victims came from countries in Eastern Europe, but also from Asia and Africa, a police official said. Some prostitutes were brought from Iraq.
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