The Professional Footballers’ Union (SJPF) will present to the Judicial Police (PJ) the balance of human trafficking activity in Portuguese sport, between 2015 and 2023, so that from now on the authorities assume exclusive jurisdiction in the matter. . TO TSFThe president of the Players’ Union, Joaquim Evangelista, states that the “Dossier on human trafficking” will also be delivered to parliamentary groups and other sports organizations, public and private, interested in acting in defense of human rights.
“This is not acceptable in our country, in a civilized country,” Joaquim Evangelista begins lamenting.
“We are talking about human rights and one of the most important values, which is the right to childhood, which is taken away from these young people when they are promised their dream and offered their nightmare. And the most serious thing is that this happens in our country in front of everyone and with the complicity of many people, including players, managers and technicians,” he adds.
The president of the SJPF calls for “sports citizenship” and warns that the Government creates mechanisms to prevent situations of human trafficking.
“We have to warn about these phenomena from their origin, prevent them from progressing, that is, we cannot allow players to be abandoned and fragile and abandoned people to look for alternatives in prostitution or drugs. And that is what is happening,” he affirms.
Joaquim Evangelista recalls that the BSports case aroused enormous concern in society, but regrets that the matter has “fallen into oblivion.”
“This is a phenomenon that is not new and is not limited to an isolated phenomenon,” says the union president, warning that “Victims are not numbers, they have faces”.
The investigation “Human Trafficking Dossier” will be presented this Wednesday by the SJPF at the PJ headquarters, which “will be a great ally in this matter,” guarantees Joaquim Evangelista.
On the table are other union initiatives, such as the presentation of “a manual for the entry and reception of foreign players in Portugal” or the creation of a platform online to report and point out these cases”.
“It is important that we all know how this phenomenon developed and continues to develop in the country,” concludes Joaquim Evangelista.
The document will be translated and delivered to international organizations.
Source: TSF
