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Czech police raid 400 brothels PRAGUE, Saturday (Reuters) Nearly 5,000 Czech police stormed more than 400 brothels on Friday night in the biggest strike against the sex slave trade in the central European country, officials said. Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the raids across the country were in response to growing criticism, both at home and abroad, that police were doing little to contain the illegal sex trade. "We decided to take this action because the slave trade is considered the third most profitable kind of international crime," Gross told a hastily arranged late-night news conference. He said foreign women detained in the raids would be given a chance to win residency permits if they co-operated with police. The country, which is due to join the European Union next year, has become the transit point and also destination for large numbers of sexual workers from other east European countries once belonging to the Soviet bloc. Drivers crossing the border from western neighbour Germany have become used to passing buildings dotted with flashing pink hearts and neon signs and women sporting short skirts and stilettos on road shoulders. |
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