They lured dozens of young girls with false promises and finally exploited the victims in Vienna sex studios with threats and beatings – now two Hungarian brothers are in prison.
“Pleasant working environment, lucrative earnings” – with tempting promises, the suspects are said to have “hunted” in poor villages in Hungary since 2014. In the sights of the brothers: women without prospects who had hoped for a better future through prostitution. Women stayed a few euros a day Landed in one of the sex studios in Vienna, the victims’ dream quickly turned into a nightmare: the girls had to around the clock – seven days a week – are available to sex customers. There was no longer any talk of the originally promised 50 percent share of the income. On the contrary. The women could be happy if they had a few euros left over for food and drink during the day. Those who rebelled were beaten – or threatened to harm their families back home. After Ferenc R. was arrested by the special unit in Hungary at the end of February, the handcuffs also clicked for Péter R., who had previously fled in Vienna. Recently, however, the handcuffs clicked for him in the presence of several alleged victims in a brothel in the federal capital. Now the 44-year-old has been extradited to the Hungarian authorities at the Hegyeshalom border crossing.
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