Two men were on Monday morning arrested for pimping, writes bt.no.
A further seven people are arrested for receiving stolen goods, drug offenses and for violating the Immigration Act in two major, coordinated police action on Monday morning.
According to police, persons apprehended in two homes, respectively in Skuteviken and on Askøy. It stayed several people from tigger- and prostitution at the addresses, police said.
The police are now considering whether the two pimp accused men to be produced for remand.
Would not say anything this morning
Police Attorney Sylvia Myklebust would Monday morning did not say anything about the background of police presence in Skuteviken.
– We are on site and have an action that began Monday morning. We will probably be there for a while, but I can not say anything more about this now. We must come back to later Monday, said Myklebust clock 09.40.
The lawyer working on organized crime division, including action against human trafficking and drug crimes.
Employees of police EXIT group, Bergen, Bergen West and from the immigration section participated in the actions.
Action against prostitution
As BT wrote earlier Monday, the campaign partly related to an ongoing investigation in the city’s prostitution .
At least one person should be suspected of having unlawfully organized for the sale of sexual services. This should have taken place over a longer period, you get BT lit.
– There were many young women who came and went. They were Eastern European and spoke poor English. We also saw a lot of nice cars to get to and from, especially at night. They had Romanian license plates, said a man who lived in the house.
– Moved because of noise
He says he saw several mattresses lying on the floor in the apartment as police broke into in Monday morning.
– Sometimes there were seven to eight mattresses on the floor in the apartment. It was also mattresses and bedding in the laundry room, but I never saw anyone sleeping there.
The former tenant lived on the floor above with buddies and say they moved out because there was possible to remain in the house Because of trouble.
– Unknown to the landlord
– There has been trouble in the house, with fighting and drinking. Police have been there earlier, said the neighbor, who also responds to the house has decayed long time.
– Many foreign people have lived here a long time. The house is filled up with people in a difficult situation. There has been a violent rek here, and people have stayed in the cars, but I want to emphasize that many of those who live in the house, nice people that we greet, says the neighbor.
BT has been in contact with the housekeeper, who said that he is not familiar with police action.
He also says he does not know that there have been police actions against his house earlier.
– To the extent there have been complaints, I tried to sort it out, says the house owner who wishes to remain anonymous.
NRK writes that it stayed between 20 to 30 people in the house.
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