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700 Police Bust Vietnamese Trafficking Ring in Germany

Associated Press

   BERLIN - More than 700 police officers searched 30 homes and businesses
   across Germany on Tuesday in a crackdown on human trafficking from
   Vietnam, authorities said.
   The raids focused on 13 suspects, all Vietnamese, who were alleged to
   have illegally trafficked at least 155 of their fellow country people
   into Germany. Six arrests were made in the raids in Saxony and Berlin
   and four other German states, federal police spokesman Axel Bernhardt
   said.
   Investigators allege the traffickers charge people between 5,000-20,000
   dollars (4,500-18,000 euros) to smuggle them in to Germany, and that
   many of the undocumented immigrants end up having to work in nail
   parlors, restaurants or sweat shops to pay back their debts.

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