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Eleven exploited olive harvest workers freed in police raids
FERNANDO TORRES
They slept on mattresses placed on bricks and pallets. They could not leave the warehouse where they lived, crowded together, and they were not allowed to contact anyone beyond the walls of their ‘prison’. The National Police have freed eleven ... people of Romanian nationality who were being exploited by an alleged human trafficking network. Seven individuals, of the same nationality, have been arrested in the operation in which the Romanian authorities also participated. The National Police ... than eight hours and in many cases without registration with the social security system. They were forces to live in storage warehouses in "very precarious" conditions, sleeping in cubicles according to the police. In addition, the alleged