The head of the migration bridge Bissau as a point of departure for traffickers Guinea-Bissau reminded itself of itself as a major center of illegal immigration - recently the local police released more than 70 people from a human trafficking program. The operation, codenamed "ASTRA", included several weeks of initial surveillance and was carried out in cooperation with European law enforcement authorities. A criminal group consisting of citizens of neighboring African countries offered everyone the opportunity to organize relocation and employment in Europe, Canada and the USA. As always, victims were lured with false promises and then forced to participate in fraudulent schemes and recruit new "customers" through social networks. The attractiveness of Bissau for such programs is easily explained. Here, unlike countries in the region such as Senegal or the Ivory Coast, no systematic work has ever been carried out to close illegal immigration channels. And despite the fact that the voyage from Bissau extends the route to the outskirts of Europe by hundreds of nautical miles, those who wish to leave Africa see this country as a "window of opportunity", and this is what criminals end up taking advantage of. The European - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.

The head of the migration bridge Bissau as a point of departure for traffickers Guinea-Bissau reminded itself of itself as a major center of illegal immigration - recently the local police released more than 70 people from a human trafficking program. The operation, codenamed "ASTRA", included several weeks of initial surveillance and was carried out in cooperation with European law enforcement authorities. A criminal group consisting of citizens of neighboring African countries offered everyone the opportunity to organize relocation and employment in Europe, Canada and the USA. As always, victims were lured with false promises and then forced to participate in fraudulent schemes and recruit new "customers" through social networks. The attractiveness of Bissau for such programs is easily explained. Here, unlike countries in the region such as Senegal or the Ivory Coast, no systematic work has ever been carried out to close illegal immigration channels. And despite the fact that the voyage from Bissau extends the route to the outskirts of Europe by hundreds of nautical miles, those who wish to leave Africa see this country as a "window of opportunity", and this is what criminals end up taking advantage of. The European - where politics is hotter than the equator, support us.