{"id":1400112,"date":"2022-03-25T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400112"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:14:53","slug":"eu-concerned-ukrainian-refugee-children-may-become-trafficking-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-concerned-ukrainian-refugee-children-may-become-trafficking-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Concerned Ukrainian Refugee Children May Become Trafficking Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feu-concerned-ukrainian-refugee-children-may-become-trafficking-victims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400112&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has warned that refugee children fleeing the conflict in Ukraine could fall victim to traffickers disguised as helpers at border areas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Commissioner Johansson highlighted the ongoing concerns the EU has over the possibility of child refugees being victims of human trafficking as they flee Ukraine into European Union member-states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is a huge risk of trafficking in vulnerable children,\u201d Johansson said, noting that criminal elements may be disguised as volunteers or helpers offering accommodation to migrants in order to take advantage of them, the European Union-funded website InfoMigrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infomigrants.net\/fr\/post\/39360\/fuite-des-ukrainiens--lue-sinquiete-du-risque-de-trafic-denfants\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson added that there have been a large number of unaccompanied children, including those born to surrogate mothers, who were at risk of being exploited or being abducted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shirin Tinnesand, refugee and migration coordinator at the NGO Wadi, said Ukrainian refugees \u201care at risk of being exposed to human trafficking, prostitution, organ donation. Only imagination sets the limits.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6irARlUcV\">https:\/\/t.co\/x6irARlUcV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1502237911017684992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The warning comes just weeks after\u00a0Shirin Tinnesand, refugee and migration coordinator at Wadi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/10\/groups-warn-ukrainian-refugees-vulnerable-to-trafficking-forced-prostitution-by-criminals\/\">made similar warnings<\/a> regarding women and children fleeing Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The NGO worker claimed that video footage taken in the main railway station in the Polish city of Krakow had shown a man engaged in suspicious behaviour, offering free food and accommodation to Ukrainian women for a year if they boarded a \u201cspecial bus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are\u00a0at risk of being exposed to human trafficking, prostitution, organ donation. Only imagination sets the limits,\u201d Tinnesand said of the refugees fleeing Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fact that people-smugglers pretend to be volunteers who go to places where it is chaotic and where there is no clear organization, and the more people who come, the more inconspicuous it becomes, and [it is] easier for smugglers and criminal organizations to operate,\u201d Tinnesand said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several reported cases of Ukrainian women being sexually abused or feeling threatened after arriving in an EU member-state since the start of the Russian invasion, including a 19-year-old who claimed a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiadomosci.radiozet.pl\/Polska\/19-latka-z-Ukrainy-zgwalcona-we-Wroclawiu.-Szczegolne-potepienie\">49-year-old Polish man raped her<\/a> after offering to help her on the Internet. The man was later arrested by Polish police.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1504110237967659014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1504110237967659014%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D20343125action%3Dedit\">a Nigerian and an Iraqi<\/a> were arrested after being accused of raping a Ukrainian teen girl aboard a hotel ship that had been converted into a migrant accommodation in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n<p>The African men were also said to have fled Ukraine as supposed refugees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukrainian Teen Allegedly Raped by Nigerian and Iraqi Migrants in German Accommodation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X6B5MnFTC7\">https:\/\/t.co\/X6B5MnFTC7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1504110237967659014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has warned that refugee children fleeing the conflict in Ukraine could fall victim to traffickers disguised as helpers at border areas. 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