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DNA test results have officially confirmed the death of a kidnapped 15-year-old Romanian girl, whose case has triggered massive protests and spotlighted deep flaws in Romania's public safety system.
DNA test results have officially confirmed that a kidnapped 15-year-old Romanian girl is dead, prosecutors said on Saturday.
"Laboratory analysis done until now revealed the genetic profile of one person, Alexandra Macesanu," the prosecutor's office for organized crime said in a statement.
Macesanu's uncle Alexandru Cumpanasu, who has been acting as spokesman for the family, said late on Friday on his Facebook page that the justice minister "had notified my cousin," on the DNA results.
The 15-year-old was last seen on July 24. On the morning of July 25, she managed to call the emergency services three times, telling them that she had been kidnapped, raped and was still being held against her will. However, she was not able to give the exact address of her location, and it took police almost 19 hours to intervene.
A 65-year-old man from the southern town of Caracal has been arrested as a suspect in the killing. He confessed to killing Macesanu as well as a second girl, an 18-year-old, who had gone missing in April.
A criminal investigation into charges of rape, murder and trafficking minors is ongoing.
The suspect accompanied the police to his house on Friday in search of evidence. The search was to continue on Saturday. Prosecutors have reportedly found blood stains and bones in his house.
The 15-year-old girl's case has spotlighted deep flaws in Romania's public safety system
The authorities' slow response has triggered huge protests in Romania. The outcry has led to several high-level resignations and dismissals.
The country's interior minister has resigned from his post, while the chief of police and other senior officials were fired. President Klaus Iohannis urged "resignations of all those who mishandled this case which had such dramatic consequences."
The latest high-profile dismissal was that of the education minister, Ecaterina Andronescu, who was fired after saying: "I was taught not to get into a car with a stranger."
She later said that she received news of her dismissal from the media and that her intention had not been to blame the victim.
In Caracal, a town of almost 30,000 inhabitants, locals said the case has shattered what little trust they had in the police and made fear part of their daily lives.
"I'm afraid to walk down the streets, you can imagine. We never saw such a thing in our town," a woman living near the suspect's house told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
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"Lab tests of samples...revealed the genetic profile of a single person, respectively Alexandra Macesanu, scientifically based on the comparison of this genetic profile with Alexandra's parents' DNA," the DIICOT directorate for investigating organized crime and terrorism, said in a statement.
Macesanu's uncle Alexandru Cumpanasu, who has been acting as spokesman for the family, said late on Friday on his Facebook page the justice minister "had notified my cousin," on the DNA results.
A 65-year-old mechanic from the southern Romanian town of Caracal has confessed to killing Alexandra Macesanu, who went missing on July 24, and another 18-year-old girl last seen in April.
Macesanu phoned the European emergency number 112 three times to say she had been kidnapped, beaten and raped. It took authorities 19 hours to locate and enter the mechanic's residence as they struggled to trace her calls and secure unnecessary search warrants.
On site, authorities found bone fragments and collected DNA samples, but a preliminary forensics report has yet to be released.
"I have not lost trust, I believe she is still alive, I cannot wait to see her," Ioan Macesanu, the father of the girl, told reporters late on Thursday.
The authorities' handling of the case has triggered street protests in cities across the country. The interior minister has resigned, while the chief of Romanian police and several other officials were fired.
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As Maria stepped through the door of her new apartment in Italy with her fiancé, she believed she was crossing into an exciting new life that her Romanian village could never provide.
But after putting down her suitcase, she was presented with a bill for every gift, restaurant dinner and holiday bought during their courtship and told to settle the debt through prostitution.
When she cracked up laughing, the “fiancé” beat her, tore up her clothes and urinated on her.
Maria*, 16 at the time, is just one of thousands of Romanian teenagers lured into debt bondage and exploitation by trafficking gangs operating with impunity across Europe .
And, as of 2018, Romanian investigators say the biggest destination in the EU for these modern sex slaves is Britain.
“We are seeing girls as young as 10 or 11 being exported and trained, so to speak, around Europe,” says Iana Matei, the founder of Reaching out Romania, which runs a shelter for trafficking survivors at a secret location 70 miles outside Bucharest.
“In some cases, they are even sold by their own parents to cover debts. It is almost medieval.”
It is not hard to see why so many women have been entrapped: in rural Romania, where most of the traffickers' targets live, 70 per cent are in poverty, while the school drop-out rate is up to 40 per cent and wages as low as £2 per hour.
Accession to the EU in 2007 was supposed to bring Romanians passport-free travel, generous pay packets and stronger working rights.
Instead, many have ended up as sex slaves in the sordid brothels of London, Berlin and Rome, where those who try to escape risk death or torture.
And while Romania’s Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu may be long dead, the ordeal of sex trafficking victims evokes the bloody past of his regime’s prisons.
Iana says one victim who tried and failed to escape her captors was made to stand on a stool wearing a noose attached to a light fixture, then beaten with sticks until she fell and strangled herself.
The reprisals can extend to family members back in Romania, as gang members threaten to return to the victim’s village and kill or maim their siblings.
The dozen or so girls currently in Iana’s shelter wear heavy make-up which belie their age - one is just 13 years old.
They move slowly and quietly around the house, avoiding eye contact with male visitors.
Upstairs, in the dormitories, one girl’s wall is covered with drawings: a broken heart, a rotting face, and a close-up of an adult hand closed around a young girl’s.
In a “normal” bedroom, such drawings might tell a humdrum tale of teenage heartbreak. But here, they are a window to the devastation wrought by what police describe as Romania’s “psychological hunters.”
“They have the power to pinpoint vulnerability. They know the victims have trouble at home, no income, trouble in finding a job,” explains one senior Romanian anti-trafficking investigator.
“They are exploiting this set up and telling the victims what they want to hear.”
The luckier survivors, like Maria, end up at Iana’s shelter - but even this tiny haven in the folds of southern Romania’s countryside faces its own dangers.
Over the years, trafficking gangs have launched increasingly brazen raids on the shelter to take back their captives, scaling the fences, ramming the electronic gates with black SUVs and using lasers to communicate with the survivors inside.
During one kidnapping attempt Iana’s guard dog, Nero, was stabbed in throat, prompting her to hire a private security team and install a panic button in her office.
“It’s very important for them to get the girls back, but I’m not scared of them,” says Iana, settling down into the office and giving Nero a pat on the head, the long scar partially concealed by his shaggy fur.
“I have been doing this for twenty years and I will keep doing it until I’m 120 years old, and the traffickers will still run away from me.”
Iana founded Reaching out Romania in 1999 on her return from exile, having fled the country at the height of the Romanian revolution.
She has horrified by the lack of support for victims back then, and claims that little has changed today as the country is swamped with corruption, both petty and severe.
“Trafficking and corruption, it’s a match made in heaven,” she says, “some officials keep their eyes closed, some say it’s too complicated to deal with, some take bribes... we desperately need reform in the system."
In response to the crisis, Romania has set up a national anti-trafficking agency, ANITP, which identifies victims and offers some support once they are repatriated.
EU membership has also opened the door to deeper security co-operation via law enforcement agencies Europol and Eurojust, as well as the European Arrest Warrant.
And a Romania-UK task force has been set up to share intelligence, allowing British Border Force officers to detain suspected traffickers and victims as they step off the plane or coach.
The snag is that many victims, even at that late stage, still believe the man they are travelling with is their boyfriend or fiancé; the spell can be hard to break.
This only throws up more challenges for Romanian police officers, who are already struggling to crack down on a mafia-style network which exploits the EU’s open border policies and adapts its methods to evade justice.
One senior police officer complained to the Telegraph about the shallowness of Romania’s security agreements with non-EU countries such as Ukraine - a sign of the impediments that anti-trafficking task forces may struggle with after Brexit.
“Another problem I am seeing at the European level, cooperating with third countries, which are not members of the EU, is that each country only has a cooperation agreement with the Romanian government." the investigator said.
Though no one in Brussels wants to undermine European security, Europol director Rob Wainwright warned last year that it was unrealistic to expect the same relationship after Brexit and that the UK was sure to face “impediments.”
This is because the UK’s resistance to accepting jurisdiction from EU courts means it is likely to be offered a relatively shallow “cooperation agreement.”
Even as the UK faces a weaker security relationship with EU countries, Romania’s anti-trafficking agency revealed that Britain overtook Germany in 2018 as the main destination for sex slaves.
“For the first time, unfortunately, the UK is the top destination country with 114 victims who were identified in the UK,” says agency spokesman Mihai Serban.
He added that it was not clear why the UK had suddenly become a key destination, as the study only counted "identified" victims.
The true scale of an industry that is by nature veiled in secrecy - and therefore nearly impossible to identify its trends - is likely to be far higher.
Unseen UK, a charity which runs an emergency hotline for modern slavery victims, believes the total number of trafficked Romanians in Britain may have already exceeded 1,200.
Mr Serban also also pointed out that the trafficking industry in Romania was not born in a vacuum, and that western EU countries must bear some responsibility as they are the source of the demand for victims.
"Without a specialised demand it would not be possible to have such a manifestation of human trafficking,” he says.
Even so, campaigners in Bucharest and London claim the Romanian authorities are failing to provide enough support for victims once they are rescued by police and sent back to Romania.
In some cases, that support amounts to a taxi from the airport to the victim’s hometown, where they are shunned by ashamed relatives and then fall back into the clutches of the traffickers.
“They repatriate the girls but we don’t know what happens after that. The government doesn’t tell us who is reintegrated and who is back on the street,” says Iana.
“We have come through 40 years of Communism where you are taught one thing only,” she sighs. “that ‘there is nothing we can do.’”
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Romania is one of the top countries of origin for people being trafficked for sex into the UK. Paraic O’Brien meets one of the pimps – “lover boys” – who are the lynchpin of Romania’s sex industry.
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The most unnerving thing about my meeting with a trafficker was that moment when, despite myself, I started warming to him.
We arranged to meet outside our hotel in the city of Iasi, near the Moldovan border. He was a school friend of an acquaintance and had agreed to talk to us anonymously.
We got into his flash car, he tuned the radio to some Romanian easy listening, and thus began our tour into the head of a sex trafficker.
As we drove around the city he showed us the flats he used to accommodate women in, the taxis used for ferrying clients and women around.
He was in his mid-20s, good looking, well dressed, looked after himself. He told us he didn’t drink or take drugs. He was in a long-term relationship.
The man projected confidence, warmth, he put you at ease – the ultimate manipulator. You couldn’t help yourself, you started to like him.
They call them “lover boys”, the lynchpin of the trafficking business. They build relationships with young women. They “groom” them.
According to the pimp in the car, he starts boyfriend, he finishes boss: “If she looks good, then you have an ATM… a cash machine.”
According to “lover boy”, Romanian police are clamping down. As a result, the business is splintering into smaller operations with an emphasis on sending women to other European countries.
He has “run” women in Spain, Italy and Austria. The way he avoids police: keep the numbers small, keep them tightly controlled.
“If one girl complains (to the police), she’s your girlfriend. If a second one complains, you’re in trouble.”
“So how do you stop that happening?” I ask.
“You brainwash them… by just talking. Just saying what they can do with all that money.”
“So you’re selling a dream to these women?”
He laughs. A sinister, mean sort of laugh. I’m not warming to him any more. I ask him whether he feels guilty about what he’s doing.
“No. I don’t force anyone. When a girl comes from a big family, the father drinks, beats the mother.
“You’re poor, you want to escape from this life. Then you choose the most efficient work to do.”
We spent hours driving around in his car talking. As we did, it became clear, he was describing his own life as well.
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