Two men arrested in Flesland – suspected of human trafficking – news Vestland

The offended party in the case is a 14-year-old boy with foreign citizenship. Arne Fjellstad, the lawyer on duty at the West police district, tells news. The person responsible for the prosecution in the case, police lawyer Sylvia Myklebust, says such cases often involve prostitution. It was BA who reported the case first. Police attorney Sylvia Myklebust. Photo: Even Norheim Johansen / news – The case concerns human trafficking with suspicion of forced labour. This often means prostitution, she tells BA. The police are asking for the imprisonment of the two suspects due to the risk of evasion and destruction of evidence. – Accidentally came across this – The police accidentally came across this. This is not something that has been going on for a long time, as far as we are aware, says Myklebust to BA. Fjellstad states that the two suspects were originally arrested for theft at the airport in Bergen. – The police were made aware of the offender in the case, and they are now being presented for imprisonment for something completely different from what they were first arrested for, he says to news. – How many cases like this do they see in the Vestland police district? – We are not unfamiliar with this type of case, says Fjeldstad. Myklebust and the police take the case very seriously. – Human trafficking is always serious, but we don’t have many details yet, she says to BA. Published 11.10.2024, at 23.28



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