The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) detained a foreign citizen at Lisbon airport for evidence of trafficking in persons, illegal immigration assistance and the use of identification documents or the travel of others.
The 35-year-old man was intercepted by the SEF in the context of border control carried out on the arrival of a flight from Dakar.
He traveled with a child, who initially claimed to be his daughter, and who presented an alien document, with France as its final destination.
The child, a minor, in compliance with the provisions of the Law on Protection of Children and Young People in Danger, was hosted in an institution.
To the detainee, present in Court, the measure of coercion of preventive custody was decreed.
Portugal is being used as a gateway to the trafficking of African children in Europe, which are used for sexual and labor exploitation.Santarém court has sentenced 13 and 14 years in prison to three men who warned illegal workers from a rural farm near Almeirim. Each of the defendants was found guilty of 23 human trafficking crimes.The court condemned two Nepalese citizens and one Portuguese for trafficking in persons. The sentences are 13 and 14 years in prison.Two Nepalese businessmen and one Portuguese man are accused of 23 human trafficking crimes. The prosecutor’s office says they will have exploited more than two dozen illegal immigrants.The court condemned two Nepalese citizens and one Portuguese for trafficking in persons. The sentences are 13 and 14 years in prison.Lisbon is becoming a transit platform for child trafficking.Portugal is being used as a gateway to the trafficking of African children in Europe, which are used for sexual and labor exploitation.
(News source: sef Portugal )
