The gang allegedly held ten victims in a cramped house, and drugged and raped one woman
Police in Ceuta have arrested and detained three migrants for facilitating illegal immigration, drugging, and rape. The Spanish authorities are struggling to contain a wave of violent crime after more than 100,000 illegal migrants surged into the exclave earlier this year.
Officers raided a property in Ceuta’s Principe neighborhood on Wednesday morning and discovered ten migrants held in cramped conditions inside, according to a statement from Spain’s National Police. Four of those in the building were children, and one migrant told police that she had been drugged and raped, while her brother – also living in the building – was subjected to threats.
All of the migrants entered Ceuta on July 30, as crowds of thousands of North Africans poured across the border fence separating the exclave from Morocco. They lacked legal documents, and had been paying a gang of migrant criminals to live in the building.
Police arrested the alleged ringleader of the gang and detained him on suspicion of sexual assault, belonging to a criminal organization, facilitating illegal immigration, unlawful detention, threats, and coercion. Two other alleged gang members were arrested for maintaining order in the property “through violence and coercive means.”
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