According to the Daily Mail, gypsies from Eastern Europe are trafficking hundreds of children into Britain to act as thieves as part of a scheme that nets them more than £1 billion a year, which is syphoned off “home” to transform poor villages into wealthy places to live.
As one would expect the current “government” is doing next to bugger all about the situation and we can expect them to start offering the Gypos cash incentives pretty soon – it’s all they ever seem to do.
No-one seems to have the balls to point out that immigration isn’t working, it’s actively harming the indiginous population of the country and it should be stopped now before we completely lose control of what used to be known as “Great” Britain.
Fagin-style criminal gangs from Romania are making vast amounts of money from trafficking children into Britain to work as pickpockets and beggars, it is revealed today.
The money amassed by the gangs is being funnelled back to Romania, often to build lavish homes back for the gang members, the Daily Mail has discovered.
The revelation comes as police staged a dramatic series of dawn raids yesterday in a campaign to stamp out the trafficking of Romanian slave children smuggled into Britain.
Many of the youngsters watched in terror from bedroom windows before being carried away. Ten children were taken into care.
The journey from Romania to Britain has become one of the most lucrative moves for those leaving Eastern Europe.
Many of those making the 1,500-mile trip are Roma gypsieswho have embarked on a life of crime in the UK.
Much of the money they make is sent back home, transforming villages where once horses and carts were the only form of transport, into places with expensive cars and glitzy mansions.
Hundreds have settled in Slough – just a £3 bus journey to London Victoria Station.
By the end of May last year 88 Romanian gipsy children, apparently without children, had turned up at the town’s civic centre.
Yestewrday 24 suspected “controllers” were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and running a “highly-organised” theft business involving up to £1billion a year. The youngsters ranged in age from less than one to 17.
Many such children are made to travel to central London every day and carry out crimes including pickpocketing, credit card cloning and distraction thefts targeting commuters and tourists.
Their “takings” are sent back home – to Romania.
The money is transfoming villages where horses and carts were once the only form of transport into places with expensive cars and glitzy mansions.
Almost 400 officers were involved in the raids yesterday on rundown properties in Slough, Berkshire.
But detectives said the operation was only the start and predicted more raids to tackle the dramatic increase in street thefts and petty crime since Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU 12 months ago.
Officers wearing body armour and supported by dogs screamed “police, police, police” as they used sledgehammers to smash through doors of gang members.
“The objective was to disrupt and detect criminal offences in relation to organised crime networks in Romania, which represents itself in an upsurge in crime in London,” said Commander Steve Allen, who led the operation.
“We have taken to safety children who may have been bought into the country to commit crime.
“The background starts a year ago with the addition of Romania and Bulgaria into the EU, when it became clear there was quite a dramatic increase in theft from the persons around central London.
“It became clear we weren’t talking about low-level crime, but one end of a highly-organised network which involved, most seriously, the trafficking of children.
“This operation is about protecting vulnerable people, about providing reassurance to all members of the community and bringing to justice the members of serious organised crime.”
Commander Allen said the number of Romanian criminals known to them in central London rose from 12 in 2006 to 214 last year after the expansion of the EU.
He estimated that each active Romanian criminal makes about £100,000 a year, most of which is channelled back to his home country. The cash is used to fund luxury cars and homes.
The Romanian crimewave led to 700 more thefts in central London in 2007 than the previous year, he added.
The criminals have been using cheap rented properties in the Slough area as a base. At one address, police found 12 adults and eight children crammed into a small three-bedroom house.
Commander Allen believes there is more than one gang involved, and many more trafficked children still to be found.
He said: “The reason we targeted Slough is because that’s where the intelligence this time has led us. We have other intelligence available to us that would take us into other parts of London.”
Last night the freed children were being cared for by Slough Borough Council. Officials said attempts would be made to reunite them with family either in the UK or in Romania.
The adults arrested are also accused of breaches of immigration rules, deception, fraud and theft. Many were understood to be romany gipsies.
Large sums of cash and credit cards were also seized.
One of the offences associated with the gangs are so-called deception crimes. A popular trick involves a gang member asking for directions with a London Underground map while another steals a handbag or a mobile phone.
The leader of Westminster City Council, Sir Simon Milton, praised the arrests and said Eastern European gangs were behind an “unprecedented surge” in pickpocketing in Westminster.
He added: “The Government has been talking tough on crime, but it is about time it started following its words with actions and start forcibly removing those foreign nationals involved in criminal behaviour.
“We know from intelligence that many of the individuals arrested by police today have been convicted previously, which is simply unacceptable and cannot be allowed to continue unchecked.”
What happened to Great Britain? 