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Lucia A Keegan 03/02/2007 10:07:51 AM From DB/Inbox: Lucia A Keegan
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SUBJECT: SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
FOR FRANCE, PART ONE OF TWO
REF: 2006 STATE 202745
SUBJECT: FRANCE CONTRIBUTION FOR 2006 TIP REPORT
SUMMARY: France remains a destination country for trafficked
persons, mainly women trafficked for prostitution from
Eastern Europe and Africa. There are between 15,000 and
18,000 prostitutes in France, of which about two-thirds --
between 10,000 and 12,000 -- are foreigners and thus likely
to have been trafficking victims. Among European nations,
many of whom regulate legalized prostitution, France,s
&abolitionist8 stance makes it relatively inhospitable
terrain for pimps and traffickers. France views itself as a
European leader in effectively combating trafficking with
extensive legislation; a centralized trafficking police
force; the provision of temporary residence permits to
trafficking victims; growing diplomatic initiatives with
source countries; and a newly energized effort to coordinate
work between government and non-government anti-trafficking
actors through a series of conferences, the first scheduled
for March 13th in Paris. Evidence of France,s success lies
in the numbers; even as France has persisted in its policing
efforts, trafficking arrests of Eastern Europeans have begun
falling, a fact the French attribute to traffickers seeking
less difficult environments outside France. END SUMMARY.
¶1. Answers below are keyed to section and paragraph numbers
in reftel. Embassy Paris TIP point of contact is Charlie
Davis, daviscr3@state.gov. Phone 33 1 43 12 23 93 (or IVG
8-498-2393), fax 33 1 43 12 26 63.
Time spent on TIP report:
FS-04 poloff: 50 hours.
LES-9 50 hours.
FS-1 Deputy Political Counselor: 5 hours' review.
POL M-C: 3 hours' review.
OVERVIEW - Question 27.
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¶A. France is a destination country for trafficked persons,
mainly women trafficked for prostitution from Eastern Europe
(Romania, Bulgaria, and to a lesser extent Albania) and
Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon). France's
national Central Office for the Repression of Trafficking in
Persons (OCRETH, a division of the National Police in the
Central Directorate of the Judicial Police in the Interior
Ministry) estimates that there are between 15,000 and 18,000
prostitutes in France, of which about two-thirds -- between
10,000 and 12,000 -- are foreigners and thus likely to be
trafficking victims.
OCRETH estimates the numbers and origin of prostitutes from
statistics of those arrested for solicitation, which was
criminalized in the 2003 Law on Internal Security (LSI).
OCRETH noted that in 2005, the national police identified
1,189 trafficking victims, 1,148 of whom were women.
Three-quarters of the victims were foreign. Forty percent
came from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, while nearly twenty
percent came from Africa. This regional representation
followed the same pattern seen in 2003 and 2004. In 2006,
police identified 1,219 victims of trafficking, 1,136 of whom
were women. In 2006, foreign women continued to account for
three quarters of the victims identified, but the ratio of
Eastern European women fell, while the percentages of
African, South American and Asian women climbed. OCRETH
interim Director Emile Lain attributes this to greater
success in interdicting major Eastern European trafficking
networks through a focus on their methods and with the help
of partnerships with Romanian and Bulgarian law enforcement.
OCRETH, he says, has begun developing similar approaches to
understanding and combating African and Asian trafficking
strategies in the hopes of similar success.
While the majority, by far, of trafficking victims in France
are brought to work in the sex trade, there is also
clandestine forced labor, primarily of young women and girls,
as domestic workers. Since domestic slavery is by its nature
hidden (the victims are kept working inside and often
permitted no leave time, and have no interchange with the
outside world that would allow them to tell their story), the
Committee Against Modern Slavery (CCEM) finds it difficult to
estimate the numbers of victims. Since its founding in 1994,
it has assisted some 480 victims, of which a majority are
African, and 88% are women. Nearly 30 percent arrived on
French territory as minors. CCEM also notes that in about
one-fifth of cases, the 'employers' are diplomats serving in
France, enjoying diplomatic immunity.
¶B. Traffickers often tell victims they will be coming to work
in child care, restaurants, etc., and then seize their papers
when the victims arrive. Often traffickers subject the women
to brutal physical violence, including repeated rapes, to
render them submissive. In other cases, the women know they
will be coming to prostitute themselves, and that they will
have to repay a debt for passage, but do not know that they
will be subjected to such violent conditions and to the
confiscation of their papers.
In the case of African victims, often another woman (known as
a "mama" or "sorceress") will subject the woman to be
trafficked to a sort of 'voodoo' ritual before her departure
from Africa, in which the "sorceress" takes bodily substances
from her -- for example, blood, hair, clothes, etc. - and
puts a hex on her. In this case, the woman believes so
strongly that the sorceress can always see/hear her actions
that she is effectively frightened from ever speaking to
authorities, even in what would seem to Westerners to be a
"safe" situation. Because the threats also extend to her
family, the woman is effectively discouraged from denouncing
her traffickers, or even trying to escape. Emile Lain of
OCRETH maintains that this continues to be a common strategy
for both recruiting and restraining victims. OCRETH, in a
planned collaboration with Nigerian law enforcement beginning
in 2007 (see paragraph J, Investigation/Prosecution), hopes
to focus official Nigerian attention on this dynamic.
Many trafficking victims are in France legally; the largest
single group of trafficking victims in France is from Eastern
Europe and the Balkans, with most coming from Romania and
Bulgaria. France does not require visas for visitors from
either country (they joined the EU on January 1, 2007) for
visits of less than 90 days. Nigerian victims can demand
political asylum, providing them a means to stay in France
legally. Several NGO contacts and OCRETH,s Emile Lain agree
that perhaps 80 percent of trafficking victims in France have
legal papers.
As with most crime, trafficking in persons represents a
shifting terrain. As French authorities more effectively rein
in some forms, others arise. Emile Lain acknowledges that his
office is beginning to see the growth of distinctly Chinese
pimping networks. Some of these involve children, and some
older women. They tend to operate exclusively within a closed
Asian immigrant community, posing serious challenges for
French law enforcement. OCRETH, Lain said, is investing
energy and resources to investigate and interdict this new,
specific scourge.
¶C. The French government is determined to combat trafficking
in persons and is making a good-faith effort to seriously
address trafficking. French government spending is subject
to some degree to the Eurozone requirement to limit its
budget deficit to 3 percent of GDP. Within this framework,
however, French law enforcement is well funded and effective.
Furthermore, the GOF supports many NGOs with victim
assistance and reinsertion through national, regional and
municipal agencies. Without government assistance, these
NGOs could not function. Corruption is not a problem.
¶D. The inter-ministerial commission on trafficking prepared
a report in 2006, mandated by the 2003 Law on Internal
Security (LSI), that describes the character of trafficking
in France, as well as France's progress in combating it. The
report was presented to the French parliament and published
in autumn 2006. It documents many of the concerns this
Trafficking in Persons Report has enumerated over the years,
focusing on the causes, evolution, and statistical reality of
prostitution in France. It defines the government,s methods
of prevention, as well as the victim protection measures it
and NGOs provide. The report shows clear tracking in all the
regions and cities of prostitution and other forms of
trafficking. It illustrates the working relationships between
NGOs and government agencies, and shows a breakdown of the 7
million euros of government aid to NGOs given in 2004. This
report draws on trafficking statistics that are compiled and
published by OCRETH each year in late April, and is furnished
to NGOs, the press and others on a request basis.
PREVENTION - Question 28.
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¶A. Yes, France acknowledges that trafficking is a problem.
January 17, in opening a conference on missing and exploited
children for First Ladies and Queens that his wife hosted at
the Elysee, President Chirac included remarks on the subject
of child trafficking. Chirac has periodically raised public
awareness of trafficking, of domestic slavery and of the sex
industry, as documented in Post,s 2006 TIP cable. This
conference, which First Lady Laura Bush attended, received
wide coverage in the media, and resulted in the announcement
of the creation of phone hotlines for victims available
across Europe and detailing the incidence of trafficking in
France and across Europe.
¶B. The inter-ministerial commission combating trafficking
includes the OCRETH (which leads the government's
anti-trafficking efforts), along with several government
ministries, including Interior, Justice, Education, Tourism,
Health and Solidarity, Foreign Affairs, and Employment,
Social Cohesion, and Lodging. OCRETH also has strong ties
with the anti-pimping brigade of the Paris police. OCRETH is
the operational and political focal point for French efforts;
police units all over the country turn their cases over to
OCRETH if they are found to involve trafficking, and OCRETH
serves as the designated correspondent for inquiries (for
example, the OCRETH chief testifies before the Senate on
trafficking questions).
¶C. In addition to President Chirac's public statements, the
government continued its participation in an anti-trafficking
poster awareness campaign in 2006, with a wider dissemination
than in previous years. The posters sought to create
awareness of the fact that prostitutes in France may be
trafficking victims and bore the words: "Slaves for Sale: Now
you Know." The GOF has also funded ad campaigns ) including
30-second TV spots on all the major channels in 2006 ) such
as a CCEM ad presenting the realities of child prostitution
and sex tourism. Another makes clear it is a criminal act to
have sex with minors. All schools in the National Education
system must educate children on the risks of internet
activity, and especially on the risks of blogging and
entering chat rooms. The government has forced internet
providers to provide and publicize blocking software for
parents, and the government funds a site,
www.mineurs.gouv.fr, advertised in print and internet media,
where individuals are encouraged to tip off the government to
illegal child porn and child sex websites.
¶D. The government continues to fund the campaign of the NGO
ECPAT-France combating child sex tourism; all Air France
flights (and Air France buses between Paris and the two Paris
airports) broadcast a video warning French tourists against
engaging in sex with minors and alerting them that their
actions on foreign soil are subject to prosecution in France.
In addition, profits from three out of the seven Air France
products available for purchase on board Air France planes (a
stuffed bear, a Concorde model, and a pen) are given to
ECPAT. All tourism students in France must do course work on
sex tourism.
¶E. Coordination and collaboration between government entities
and other relevant organizations is improving. Patrick
Hauvuy, who directs the re-insertion service of ALC Nice, was
a beneficiary of an International Visitor Leadership Program
in the United States last fall. In his debrief at the
Embassy, he recounted that on the whole, communication and
collaboration between NGOs, law enforcement, and other
government agencies is not as organized as in the U.S.
Several other NGO contacts support this conclusion, but
acknowledge that the situation is improving.
OCRETH will host its first National Day of Cooperation on
March 13, to be attended by magistrates, prosecutors, police,
academics, and NGO representatives. Among the goals are to
establish new relationships; to develop new training
opportunities for public and law enforcement officials; and
to educate magistrates and prosecutors on the
anti-trafficking provision of the 2003 LSI.
Several NGOs, for instance CCEM and ACPE, have seen a change
in government attitudes in the last several years. Whereas
the NGOs previously had to cajole and prod police and
judicial bodies to accept NGO-offered training sessions,
these same agencies now seek and request such training from
NGOs. The motivation for sensitization to trafficking issues
comes as much from within the government ) particularly
OCRETH ) as from the NGOs. In general, civil society plays
a robust role in France, and the French government recognizes
its role in the battle.
¶F. France adequately monitors its borders, but a large part
of metropolitan French border-monitoring has been subsumed
into the Schengen Treaty, which covers the majority of
France's land borders and some of its air traffic as well
(persons arriving in flights, trains, and cars coming into
France from other Schengen member countries such as Belgium,
Spain, Italy, Germany, and Luxembourg are not subject to
border controls because passengers have either gone through
Schengen border control at the point where they entered
Schengen territory, or they themselves are Schengen residents
and thus receive no examination).
¶G. The mechanism for coordination and communication between
various ministries and agencies is the Interministerial
Commission to Combat Trafficking in Persons, which OCRETH
chairs. France also has a Working Group on the Fight Against
Sex Tourism Involving Children, which includes the Ministries
of Social Security, Aged Persons, Handicapped Persons and
Family; Minister-Delegate for Tourism; Ministry of Foreign
Affairs; Ministry of Interior; Youth Ministry; Justice
Ministry; NGOs, tourism-sector representatives, and other
experts.
¶H. France's current national plan of action to combat
trafficking in persons was enunciated in 2002. A copy (in
French) is with EUR/WE.
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