Prostitutes from La Junquera are forced by their pimps to go outside to look for clients
Prostitutes from La Junquera are forced by their pimps to go outside to look for clients
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Prostitutes from La Junquera are forced by their pimps to go outside to look for clients
The border town of Alt Empordà is the great brothel of Catalonia and southern France. Girls have been located bypassing confinement.
March 29, 2020 04:18Related news
They are seeing them in the industrial estates of Valencia, in the Raval of Barcelona, in the Colonia Marconi in Madrid ... and especially in the Alt Empordà region (Girona). Prostitutes who normally practice on the street and who are being forced to skip the running of the bulls because the pimp forces them to get out. With the country confined, they continue to go down the road to wait for clients who are also committing an illegality.
Why in Alt Empordà? Because it is the Catalan region where prostitution is almost an icon. It is the border area where La Junquera, the great brothel of Europe, is located. At least, one of the municipalities of the continent with more hostess clubs and sex workers per inhabitant. A strategic position that is attended by Spanish clients and French prostitutes, who in their country have not so lax legislation. Neither is the damage the coronavirus is doing, nor the confinement conditions. In the south of France they have not yet reached our extremes of surveillance and the quarantine can be circumvented more easily.
And there they continue, the prostitutes from La Junquera, trying to avoid all the ills: on the one hand, the virus, made quite unlikely if they have to maintain physical contact with a person that they do not know if they are infected or not. On the other, confinement, that they are obliged to skip the rules imposed by the government for all Spaniards. Finally, the pimp, who continues to endanger them so that the business does not stop. They are even raising prices: prostitutes 'trips to clients' houses have raised their price by almost 100% : "When before it varied between 100 and 125 euros for an hour, now they are asking for 200 for the same service" , EL ESPAÑOL tells a person closely related to the sector.
Look the other way
"The government has looked the other way with prostituted women," denounces Nuria González , from the L'Escola AC association, which works for the abolition of prostitution and who sued the Ministry of Labor for registering the sex workers union OTRAS . “The brothels are closed, but the girls are still in there. Many, even, forced to exercise and skip confinement. It is what we cannot understand. Some are practicing street prostitution. How, with the whole country locked up at home, there are women who continue to force prostitution and risk their lives. ”
Prostitutes take to the streets because the pimp forces them, or because in their case, it is the only source of income available to them. The invisible administrative reality of prostitutes means that they cannot receive any remuneration, discharge or compensation. Here there are no ERTES , only the complete closure of the tap of your income. Theirs and those of the pimps, who are the ones that continue to endanger them.
Not only are you concerned that they will skip confinement. The confinement in itself also takes away sleep from associations that help sex workers. Natalia Massé, head of the Apip-Acam women's program, told the Diari de Girona that the prostitutes on Carrer del Alta Empordà do not usually have much contact with the administration. They do not ask for help, they do not ask for socio-sanitary support or they are included in the lists of sex workers. Now, with the state of alarm, knowing about them is even more complicated. "We always try to know where they are and what they do, now, with the confinement, we have no news."
From France to go whores
One of the sources in the sector consulted by EL ESPAÑOL assures that “people from France keep coming down to go to La Junquera as whores. Now they usually book an appointment. Everything works online . On the contact pages they already explain where you have to go and the girls that are available ”. In addition, some of the houses that are offered on these contact websites use health as a hook: “They make you take your temperature when you arrive, they treat you with a mask, they accept a card, they disinfect with sodium hypochlorite even towels and girls have passed the tests and have given negative. Logically it is a scam and puts everyone at risk. Prostitutes, clients, family of puteros ... "
A group of prostitutes in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona.
Now habits have changed. Customers cannot enter the bar to choose a girl. Now, they are the contact pages, the Telegram channels and some forums where they explain which houses are still open in each area of Spain. But, they explain from the abolitionist associations, at the roundabouts and sections of secondary roads where no one ever transits, street prostitutes continue to attract customers and expose themselves to all dangers. Because in addition to fear of conagio, they are skipping the quarantine. If they get caught, they get caught, not the pimp.
“That there are prostitutes on the street these days only means that the police have not been concerned and have not even gone through the places where we know very well that women are still prostituted. And if they have gone, they have not cared that they are there, ”continues Nuria González, who in addition to the girls who practice on the street, points to houses where they continue to receive stealthy customers who run away from home with an excuse:“ In the Robadors del Rabal street in Barcelona, the girls are still in there and forced to work, ”she says.
Out of aid
“It is incredible that in any of the measures of the government in reference to these women. They exist, although they look the other way, what happens is that they are inside the brothels ”, protests Nuria González. The workers themselves also believe that they have been left out of any package of measures. Most do not work, as Sabrina Sánchez , the spokesperson for the Other union, explained in SER. "I had been doing two or three services a day, now none." They regret that the administration is going to turn their back on them, although, like other groups, they are suffering greatly from the effects of the pandemic.
There are many clubs that advertise on the contact pages that these days are closed, for the safety of customers and workers. But in La Junquera, the street sex industry does not stop. In the European capital of prostitution , these days there are still women who have been forced to go out in search of clients who do not arrive, and if they do, they can put their lives at risk.
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