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person paid 1,000 dollars for this trip, but I don’t know for how many peopleMadam A. paid for. I had a telephone contact with A. as I did not want to continuethe journey and she reassured me saying that she would personally wait for me inSpain”.“In Morocco other people joined, we were about a hundred and from the city ofTangiers we were obliged to get small boats. I did not want to get in because theytold me that many people after capsizing had died, but they obliged me withviolence. We capsized three times and at the end we arrived in Spain crossing theAtlantic Ocean, it was the 19 August.” (Preventive detention order, criminalproceedings - Naples, 1999).Interview victim No. 8S. departed in 2001 from Benin City with two other girls and an escort for theNorth of Nigeria. The journey was made by car. In a village in the north, wherethey stopped, they met other five girls coming from other areas of Nigeria withrelative trolleys. Altogether, with other cars they reached the border with Maliwhere they were forced to continue on foot for three days until they reached a placewhere it was possible to continue by car.The trip to Morocco lasted one week and once arrived in Morocco S. waits fivemonths before she is able to embark: “There were many people waiting, we waitedour turn to enter. It was full of people, a pregnant girl, one who had been there ayear, one who had died. So many things happen there. You die of hunger ”.“In Morocco” explained S. “if the madams that are in Italy do not send moneyto the girls, they die of hunger”. S. passed five months in a hotel in Tangiers,without the possibility of going out for fear that the police would catch her andsend her back. Slowly as the day of departure arrived, the girls went closer to theplace from where they would depart.Finally the turn of S. arrived, and she crossed the sea that separated them fromEurope on a clandestine boat. Arrived in Spain together with a trolley and the othertwo girls, she reaches Italy by train and in Naples meets her madam.d) Other variations of the journeyInterview victim No. 4R. was 19 when in 1998 she departed from Lagos by car to reach Togo andfrom there to embark on a direct flight to Portugal. The trolley escorts her toembarkation and has the responsibility to pay the police so that she gets into theplane without any problems.Arrived in Portugal she was expelled because her travel documents were notvalid. She waits two days in Portugal while the police find an aircraft to put her on.In the end she is put on a direct flight to Senegal and from there took another flightto Abidjan. From the Ivory Coast she refuses to return to Nigeria and spends 21days in jail. She asks to not continue her journey by air, but by car and her request