Four Nigerian women were rescued from "voodoo" death threats after six people were arrested by Spanish police on suspicion of keeping the frightened victims as sex slaves.
According to investigators, the trafficking ring prostituted women in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and other parts of Spain after luring them from their families in Nigeria. They are accused of binding them to an oath to pay back money for the passage to Spain and casting voodoo-type spells to guarantee their obedience.
The women were recruited from poor families in Nigeria and told they would get regular employment in Spain. They were then made to swear oaths that they would work off a debt to the gang of up to €50,000 (£37,000) before they could gain their freedom.
