It's a billion-dollar business: Criminal networks from Nigeria make money from drug and human trafficking. In their home country, they lure young women with the prospect of a secure future in Europe - a fateful promise. Because it leads to forced prostitution. The women pay thousands of euros for the often illegal journey. Once there, the human traffickers demand the money back and force the young women into prostitution. They are put under psychological pressure by an archaic "Yuyu" ritual intended to prevent them from escaping and escaping their tormentors. "Without demand, the business would not exist," says social worker Princess Inyang Okokon. She herself had fallen into the hands of human traffickers, but managed to get out and is now helping other women to break out of forced prostitution. Fateful Promises reveals how the traffickers operate. The documentary accompanies the committed Italian prosecutor Lina Trovato and the German investigator Colin Nierenz in their work and tells of the fate of young Nigerian women who managed to escape from forced prostitution.—ARD Das Erste
The documentary 'The Deal' shines a light on the billion-dollar business of forced prostitution and drug trafficking carried out by Nigerian networks. They fulfil forbidden desires: prostitution and drugs. It's a billion-dollar business based on enslavement and forced prostitution. 'The Deal' follows investigators as well as those affected by the Nigerian networks.
'More demand, more sales. If demand is no more, sales will collapse,' protagonist Princess Inyang Okokon states in the film. She is a social worker with a mission: to save the women who are forced prostitutes in Europe, but also to offer young women in Nigeria an alternative to emigrating to Europe. Princess knows that the European demand for prostitutes is increasing - just like poverty in Nigeria.
Behind Nigerian forced prostitution are female human traffickers, so-called madames, while members of Nigerian 'brotherhoods' in Europe are mainly involved in the drug trade. 'They dominate the market with extremely low prices,' says Lina Trovato, an anti-Mafia prosecutor. She not only investigates the organisation of the brotherhoods, but also painstakingly tracks the movements of their revenues. Our camera is allowed to accompany her on her investigations.
Lina Trovato's work on the route of forced prostitutes to and within Europe connects her with Colin Nierenz, an investigator from the 'Aid' commission of investigation in Duisburg. His team are on the trail of a madam who forced young Nigerian women into prostitution.
