The British Interior Ministry announced on Sunday, June 15, the launch of a National Police operation aimed at finding members of pedocriminal gangs responsible for the sexual exploitation of girls in several cities in England between the late 90s and early 2010.
The British Crime Agency (NCA) was responsible for the operation, which will be in collaboration with the Police, said the Ministry’s press release.
This new operation will also allow the reopening of surveys that had previously been subject to a classification without follow -up.
This announcement occurs after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was in favor of a national investigation on the subject. So far he had preferred local investigations.
“More than 800 businesses” identified
According to the Ministry of Interior, “more survivors of the atrocities committed by pedocriminal gangs will obtain justice” thanks to this new operation, whose main objective is to take the courts of the members of these networks.
“The vulnerable young women who have been exploited unimaginably (…) are today brave women who affirm justice,” said Interior Minister Yvette Cooper, cited in the press release.
“Very few people listened to them at that time. It was a serious and unforgivable failure. We are ending now,” he continued, adding that “more than 800 cases () have already been identified by the police after I asked them to reopen files too early.”
For several decades, in several English cities, gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani origin attacked girls and girls, mostly white and disadvantaged environments.
“Cleaning gangs”
This scandal of “cleaning gangs” returned in the news in early January, when billionaire Elon Musk accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of having left “groups of rapists who exploit girls without having to face justice.”
The most resounding case is that of Ralleham, a city where almost 1,500 minors were drugged, raped and sexually exploited by one of these gangs for sixteen years, between 1997 and 2013.
More than one hundred men have been sentenced, and the victims are estimated at several thousand.
Police infractions and local authorities were severely criticized, and this case that traumatized England is used regularly by the British end of denouncing the laxity of public authorities and a two -speed justice.
Source: BFM TV
