documents it shows that the man is her father and the woman her mother. They aregoing to Budapest and have a tourist visa for Hungary for the duration of onemonth. They stay for two weeks in Hungary in an apartment belonging to friendsof the man.When W. asked for the reason for the stopover they say: “We do it in phases,like this we let you see Europe”. In reality she was obliged to stay all day in thehouse.After two weeks of reclusion finally she can go out, what is waiting for her is ajourney by foot which lasts 13 days. They walk day and night in woods togetherwith other persons, about 50. The three of them are the only Nigerians, the othercompanions of the journey are white, but W. is not able to indicate the nationality.They are all going towards the Austrian border.W. started having the first doubts, she does not understand the reasons for thistiring move and does not dare ask anything, she is frightened that the man whoaccompanied her will leave her t<strong>here</strong> and she is worried about her father who doesnot know w<strong>here</strong> she is. She is unable to eat anything, despite the fact that theperson escorting her brought bread, tuna and biscuits with him. Luckily it is Augustfor which it is possible, without suffering from the cold, to sleep in the open; butW. is frightened of animals and is always on the alert.Arrived at the Austrian border some persons are blocked, the others manage toescape, the man that is with her and the other Nigerian woman are amongst these.In Austria her escort telephones someone and he describes the place in whichthey find themselves, and soon a car driven by a Nigerian boy arrives who willaccompany her to Italy.At the border with Italy t<strong>here</strong> is no one, and the group passes unobserved. Thefirst stage in Italy is in Verona w<strong>here</strong> W. meets her madam with whom she willcontinue the journey to Turin.Interview victim No. 5It is 1998, T. is accompanied to the airport of Lagos by a man who was chargedwith facilitating her embarkation on a direct flight to Budapest. T. is travelling witha passport in which appears her photograph, but not her name, and has a touristvisa for Hungary for the duration of three weeks. On departure she is given 1,000Euros for the hotel and other expenses of the journey.Reaching Hungary she has a room in a hotel for which they have provided herwith the address before departure and w<strong>here</strong> she remains three days. From t<strong>here</strong> shetelephones Italy, to the man (B.) who offered her a job through a religiousorganisation in Rome, who assures her that he will send someone to collect her.A short while later in fact a Nigerian man presents himself to her at the hotel,C., who takes her to his home. This man has resided for more than 15 years inHungary, has obtained the nationality and is married with children. The housew<strong>here</strong> he hosts T. is his own property.
T. remains in this house for 21 days and as the wife of the man is in hospital, itis she who takes care of cooking, keeping the house in order and doing theshopping. In the house t<strong>here</strong> is another Nigerian boy who is the baby sitter. In themeantime, T. starts making braids in the food store owned by the person hostingher.When the wife returns home C. tells her that he owns another house w<strong>here</strong> heputs the girls that should depart for Italy, but in her case, from the moment that theperson who is waiting for her in Italy has recommended not to place her with theothers “because she is not one of them”, he proposes that she lives until themoment of departure with his brother in law.T. t<strong>here</strong>fore stays a further 14 days in the home of the brother in law.From the moment that the tourist visa was out of date, she is provided with a“paper” that permits her freedom of movement in the city. Often she goes and doesthe shopping for the girls hidden in the other house. T. describes like this thecondition of these women: “These girls could not speak, they were always closedin a room under the garage, t<strong>here</strong> were many, many ”.The privileged position of T., given to the fact that in a certain way she was“recommended”, but also to the fact that she was a few months pregnant, gave anillusion during the entire journey to be really destined for another type of work. Hervisual angle t<strong>here</strong>fore, due to her condition, is much richer and the information sheprovides is detailed. It is an account of a journey, as we will see, almost unique, notonly for the particularly adventurous contents, but also because few other womenexploited by trafficking could have reconstructed in such detail, since the majorityof them find themselves in a condition of total reclusion and travel heaped incovered wagons.At the end of two weeks, the journey to Italy begins. C. escorts T. to a hotel andhands her over to two “Italians” 26 who drive the covered wagon. They make herjoin them in the cabin, so t<strong>here</strong>fore she is not aware that behind, under thetarpaulin, t<strong>here</strong> are dozens of people hidden. She finds this out towards eveningwhen they arrive in an isolated place and 30 people of Nigerian and Bengalnationality are put down.“They made us descend because they were shouting that they were dying «I amdying, <strong>here</strong> it is hot», they were sick…so they stopped and told us to wait t<strong>here</strong>until someone arrived”.They were stopped for a short while when a man joined them who explainedthat they had to cross the snow covered mountains that they could see ahead. “Theytold us that when we arrive on the other side it is Italy” remembers T. [in realitythey were instead near the border between Hungary and Slovenia, Ed.].The two Italians, who had accompanied them until that point, go back with thewagon and another 4 men of Italian nationality arrive.26T. maintains that she can tell Italians because in Nigeria, since the migration started towards Italy, t<strong>here</strong>were some words diffused in Italian (these were in particular swear words and insults).
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