
Their stories are reminiscent of American gangster films, but their scenario unfolds in Athens in 2022.
Beautiful young girls from poor Eastern European countries who come to Greece to earn money to support their families and end up in dirty beds dating 100 men a day are imprisoned in houses with armed Albanian guards, sent to hospitals from uncontrolled bleeding and even forced to put sponges in their vaginas in order not to miss a day of their salary.
Maria and Renata from Moldova, aged 20 and 26 respectively, experienced absolute poverty for many months.
Until the police of the Sub-Directorate for Organized Crime and Trafficking in Human Beings, following a ring of pimps led by a Moldovan, Daniela and her Albanian partner, known by the nickname "Tony Montana" discovered the gang and found them in bad shape in an apartment in the center of Athens.
The testimonies and descriptions of two young women who poverty, scarcity and despair threw into the circles of paid pleasure, shocked and revealed what really happens in the center of Athens.
The investigation by the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office led to the dissolution of an organization that secretly brought poor girls from Moldova through Albania or Turkey to exploit them and earn money.
The profits were numerous, to the point that the tutors opened a flower shop in the center of Athens to wash the "black" euros from their "pink" jobs, writes protothema.
20-year-old Maria
The first daughter, Maria, included in the ring of "Tony Montana" and Daniela, is only 20 years old.
Through a mutual acquaintance he came to Athens and the nightmare began on the first day when he was forced to make 52 meetings.
" My friend told me that I will make five hundred euros in Greece if I make three romantic dates with clients, and as much as I didn't like this job I was forced to do it because I had no money for my child. He also told me that this job is legal in Greece and I will have no problem at all. Called the manager, who sent me money to arrange my trip to Greece, specifically five hundred euros for bus tickets and my passport. I would borrow this money from my work as a publisher. So, in May 2022, my trip from Moldova to Greece was organized. In the afternoon, the manager came with her husband, who is Albanian, and we went to show me the shelters where I would work. " Daniela is the owner of many brothels ," she says, while the scenes she describes in the following lines are terrifying.
" The first day I worked in the brothel, I met fifty-four men and I felt really bad. I felt bad because the men I was forced to date were dirty, drunk, foreign, drug users. I worked even when I didn't feel well inserting a sponge into my vagina. The manager and the Albanian took me to the asylum in most cases in a big black car, other times on foot or by themselves. In June 2022, with another girl, we decided to leave for Moldova, secretly" .
26-year-old Renata
In the testimony given with an interpreter, in the presence of a psychologist, at 1:30 p.m. on October 15 at the Sub-Directorate for the Fight against Organized Crime and Human Trafficking, near the Directorate of Security of Attica, the 26-year-old Moldovan Renata, revealed the terrible testimony.
"In 2018, I got in touch with a friend of mine who I knew lived in Athens and worked in a brothel. Since I learned that money was good, I saw it as an opportunity to raise money and raise my child without having to put him in an institution and raise him myself. So, in August 2018, I came to Athens with my son and worked for two and a half months as a refugee in the asylum located on Iasonos Street. The boss there was a Greek, Vasso, who gave me even more money. When I arrived in Greece, the manager picked me up from the airport together with "Tony Montana" and took me to their house on Acominatou street. In this house I had to pay rent of two hundred euros because they took shelter. Daniela had 4 public houses at that time. Each meeting cost ten euros, and I got five euros from each meeting, while the first four meetings were jazz, that is, I was not paid at all for the meetings I did. Because I had a problem with my passport, I stayed for three months, in February 2020 I went to Moldova, renewed my passport and came back in mid-March 2020. Then the problems started. Quarantine also started due to the corona virus and public houses had to be closed. Both me and the other girls were afraid to work, but the manager and "Toni Montana" shouted at us, insulted us and forced us to work secretly. When I told Daniela that the customers who come to the store are drunk, or dirty, or on drugs and I don't want to go out with them, she yelled at me and told me that I came to work and not to sit. I'm not a princess Because I had a problem with my passport, I stayed for three months, in February 2020 I went to Moldova, renewed my passport and came back in mid-March 2020. Then the problems started. Quarantine also started due to the corona virus and public houses had to be closed. Both me and the other girls were afraid to work, but the manager and "Toni Montana" shouted at us, insulted us and forced us to work secretly. When I told Daniela that the customers who come to the store are drunk, or dirty, or on drugs and I don't want to go out with them, she yelled at me and told me that I came to work and not to sit. I'm not a princess Because I had a problem with my passport, I stayed for three months, in February 2020 I went to Moldova, renewed my passport and came back in mid-March 2020. Then the problems started. Quarantine also started due to the corona virus and public houses had to be closed. Both me and the other girls were afraid to work, but the manager and "Toni Montana" shouted at us, insulted us and forced us to work secretly. When I told Daniela that the customers who come to the store are drunk, or dirty, or on drugs and I don't want to go out with them, she yelled at me and told me that I came to work and not to sit. I'm not a princess Quarantine also started due to the corona virus and public houses had to be closed. Both me and the other girls were afraid to work, but the manager and "Toni Montana" shouted at us, insulted us and forced us to work secretly. When I told Daniela that the customers who come to the store are drunk, or dirty, or on drugs and I don't want to go out with them, she yelled at me and told me that I came to work and not to sit. I'm not a princess Quarantine also started due to the corona virus and public houses had to be closed. Both me and the other girls were afraid to work, but the manager and "Toni Montana" shouted at us, insulted us and forced us to work secretly. When I told Daniela that the customers who come to the store are drunk, or dirty, or on drugs and I don't want to go out with them, she yelled at me and told me that I came to work and not to sit. I'm not a princess. "
Also, the girl had a problem with her papers, which Daniela nevertheless managed to solve.
"I had been deported, I could not enter Greece until 2023. The leader had found the solution. He told me that I would travel to Albania by plane and from there an Albanian would cross me illegally to Greece on foot. I really needed the money for my child and decided to accept. So I arrived in Greece around 06-27-2021. This trip cost 3000 euros and Daniela told me that I would pay for it with my work at the brothel, from one to three shifts a day. For about three months, regardless of the meetings I normally did, they kept all the money I made and gave me ten euros a day for food and cigarettes. I may have met a hundred men during that time, but the money I got in the end was always ten euros. When we were working during the quarantine period, they forced me to do three shifts in a row and make meetings with about a hundred clients. And when we said we were afraid of the police, he told us that whatever happens he has money for lawyers and courts. When I told her I was in pain, or not in the mood, or tired, she didn't believe me and told me I was lying..."