According to police reports, arriving women are being targeted by “shady characters” both at the main railway station and at the ZOB (Central Bus Station) in Charlottenburg. Pimps and human traffickers are apparently trying to exploit the plight of Ukrainian refugees in Berlin, reports the newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
Helpers independently report that unknown persons have made dubious offers of sleeping places to refugee women travelling alone. “Pimps use forced prostitutes from Ukraine because women are better at making contact with women,” one aid worker told the newspaper.
“We received several tips from helpers that some shady characters were walking around there and making offers to women,” says a spokesperson for the Federal Police. According to him, the officers could also witness these persons spying on single travellers. When Federal Police officers approached these persons, they ran away. According to the spokesperson, the officers issued several expulsions in the meantime.
It is not disclosed from which group of people these “helpers” are recruited, but one can assume that they are people who control the red-light district, and as is well known, these are people who themselves arrived here as ” refugees” and now organise themselves as clans.