Hundreds of underage Afghan boys forced into Belgian prostitution: lured via TikTok
Hundreds of underage Afghan boys forced into Belgian prostitution: lured via TikTok
Underage Afghan boys end up in prostitution in Belgium to get rid of their smuggling debt. This summer, five Afghan men were arrested on suspicion of human smuggling in Belgium. There are tens to hundreds of victims. This involves underage boys. It concerns tens to hundreds of victims between the ages of 13 and 18. It is a large file, and a special file. The judicial investigation is currently underway.
TikTok is the main tool with which suspects, victims and also the executives communicated with each other, it turned out. The smuggling network also used TikTok outside the country’s borders. There is communication with people in Belgium, Turkey, France and Germany.
The investigation into the Afghan criminal organization was started last year. The Federal Legal Policy has a dossier linked to an Afghan network of prostitutes of minors, young people who are between 13 and 18 years of age. The dossier is transferred in the middle of the Antwerp park.
