Fines for being shirtless in Vélez-Málaga

A new draft municipal ordinance in Vélez-Málaga is aimed at the preservation of public spaces as a place of harmony and civility where all people can develop free leisure activities, meetings and recreation with full respect for the dignity and rights of others, and covers everything from walking shirtless in the streets to the purchase or sale of sexual favours.

Two Rumanian gangs disbanded in police operation

The National Police has broken up two Rumanian gangs engaged in forcing women into prostitution and who even tattooed their women with bar codes to show ownership and ‘debts’ owed.

Fine time in Sevilla

Sevilla Council has received the first two fines relating to the solicitation of the services of prostitutes on the streets of the city.

Mother forces daughters into prostitution

Police in Vélez-Málaga have located and freed two children who were forced into prostitution in various alternative clubs by their mother, who has been arrested.

15 arrested in ‘Operación Damas’

A total of fifteen people have so far been arrested in connection with ‘Operación Damas’, an investigating into human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution being carried out by a network of Rumanian criminals.

Prostitution in Andalucia

According to the Minister for Equality and Social Welfare, Micaela Navarro, there are 4,000 prostitutes in Andalucia and 300,000 in the country as a whole, 90% of whom are immigrants whose status in the country is irregular.