22 aug. 2021
For years, Vietnamese children and teenagers have been disappearing in Germany. Those responsible are unscrupulous human traffickers whose networks span continents.
The young Vietnamese are smuggled into Germany via Russia and Eastern Europe. Many end up in the world of crime, working as slaves for the Vietnamese mafia. This film tells their story. One high-ranking investigator describes the phenomenon as “modern slavery”. This is how many children and young people are brought from Vietnam to Germany: They are crammed into vans, loaded into refrigerated trucks, on the road for months, held along the way in abandoned warehouses or apartments. They are beaten, raped, exploited, they fear for their lives. They are lured by the prospect of a better life, as promised to their families by the criminals. Berlin is one of the most important hubs for Vietnamese human trafficking. The journey to a cynically promised better life costs 15,000 to 20,000 dollars, which the victims have to pay off working in nail salons, as cigarette sellers, drug mules or on illegal cannabis farms. The traffickers decide when the debt is paid, leaving the victims at their mercy for years. It’s a business worth millions. One criminal has brought hundreds of Vietnamese from Lithuania to Berlin via Warsaw on behalf of the Vietnamese mafia. He says: “Whether it’s human trafficking or drugs, it’s all the same people.” Award-winning journalists Adrian Bartocha and Jan Wiese trace the Vietnamese mafia across several European countries, all the way to Great Britain. They speak with top investigators, witnesses, victims and perpetrators. This documentary gives an in-depth account of how human trafficking in Europe works, and how the crime continues to go almost unnoticed in Germany.
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There are moments when you are ashamed of your origins . Right now I’m so ashamed of being a Polishwoman .
More moral panic drivel. “Vietnamese human trafficking mafia,” oh please.
DW AS ALWAYS IS EXTRAORDINARY
Some people deserve no mercy.
Sad that many vietnamse parents are sending their children to germany by trafficking for not living in poverty in that comunist goverment 😢😢😢😢😢
great and important work thanks.
Why use cartoons? Are we ALL to be treated as six years olds?
It’s appalling that in the 21st century Europe and other parts of the world that child trafficking still exists and mostly go unnoticed by government officials, we need to put penalties on this human traffickers and to enforce law and order at every international borders
İt is happening now not tomorrow…and in the European union.
13:25 “Usually this danger doesn’t apply when it comes to the missing Vietnamese young people who’ve been smuggled in.” un tis un tis un tis un tis I know you guys are German but take it easy with the techno music Where do they go when they disappear?
Where are their Parents???
On that Day, you will be asked about your pleasures. (Holy Quran 102:8)
I wish they’d trade in my wife, ha! (reads that this is about child trafficking) … wait no I was just kidding, I didn’t reali
Unfortunately I am 4th this time 😢
first like, first comment
As I have been told by border controller who lives in Latvia, it’s quite difficult for them to report drug smugglers/human traficcers since they can get put in prison for reporting (by higher ups) and also at the same time they can get put in prison for letting trough border ppl who smuggle. Constant fear of getting in trouble either for having morals or trying to do everything to get wage to feed family.
This is disgusting when the authorities do very little when Vietnamese are involved
Ummmm…..how come the church wasn’t included?
7 child traffickers disliked this video. ..
Very nice. I’d like to have some of that money. How can I trade Vietnamese? Please report back. Thank you.
Roddy Pedro Carbonell
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