Traffickers busted

China gang: trafficking people on a grand scale

Little man very little: The Chinese citizen claims to have known nothing about human trafficking. He also asked whether he was in custody in Vienna. "What is Eisenstadt?"

(Bild: Harald Schume)

Passports taken, into the car, via Austria to Italy, where the Chinese had to perform forced labor. "They were just tourists," says the trafficker in front of the jury at the Eisenstadt Regional Court.

Honestly now: What Chinese person travels to Europe with the aim of finally being allowed to visit a fantastically beautiful textile factory in the Italian village of Celerino? "I was only transporting tourists," says the defendant at the Eisenstadt Regional Court, who was arrested by the Austrian army in St. Martin an der Raab in April - after first speeding past the controls and then driving into the car. "The brakes didn't work."