More than 10.000 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Germany every day. Among them are many women and children, the most common targets of criminal groups. Europol warns that the most vulnerable must remain under the protection of the national police.
Criminals attack unprotected refugees everywhere in the world, trying above all to bring women and children into their facilities, for slave labor, prostitution and illegal adoption.
Since the Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24, Germany has registered more than 232.000 refugees. According to United Nations data, in those four weeks, out of 44 million Ukrainians, more than 3,5 million escaped.
On Monday, the head of German diplomacy, Analena Berbok, warned the European Union that it should prepare for the imminent arrival of millions more refugees, and this will be discussed by the interior ministers next week.
The most exposed people in that river are unaccompanied minors, warns Europol. The UN estimates that around one million children have fled the war zone, many without their parents.
European police therefore require special attention from the authorities at borders, in reception centers, collective accommodation and at railway stations, places around which criminals most often stalk their victims.
They present themselves as willing helpers and offer accommodation or transport, contact refugees on social networks and offer employment or other assistance.
At the same time, organized crime has long since turned Eastern Europe into a hub for human trafficking and is strong in the countries neighboring Ukraine.
The German police union had earlier proposed the formation of protective zones around train stations to prevent criminals from coming into contact with women and children.
The human rights organization Amnesty International proposes a "standardized, institutionalized registration system" with data on refugees and their destination on the one hand, and those offering them transport or accommodation on the other.
The idea is to narrow the space for criminals to fraudulently grab victims.
However, the German authorities' data on the refugees who arrived are not complete. They report only those registered by the federal police, for example at the Austrian-German border, at stations or on trains.
Therefore, those who are already in some sort of accommodation are not necessarily counted, and there are certainly significantly more refugees in Germany than according to official data.
It is not known how many of those who have arrived have extended to another country, that is, how many of them intend to do so.
Germany is trying to eliminate bottlenecks in the accommodation of refugees. On Tuesday, 77 buses were supposed to transport around 4.000 people to various cities. Sources in Berlin state that Bavaria was the destination of the largest part, i.e. 21 vehicles.
More than half of all departures for the resettlement of Ukrainian refugees in Germany depart from Berlin.
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