sábado, 27 de marzo de 2010

Gooners Whoring In Barcelona?

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Super Club in Mataro?

A month ago a lot of stories were run in the press about "macroprostibulos" going through the local authority planning process in Mataro, about 30km from Barcelona despite local protests.

A macro-prostibulo is basically a super club. One of the places up for its permit would be called "Showgirls Chocolate Nightclub" with one of the places having 50 rooms and the other 30 rooms adjoined to their respective night clubs. The biggest being mentioned online is currently still Pascha in Cologne in Germany with its 126 rooms.

The other Catalan contender for biggest club is still being built in La Jonquera, the crossing between France and Catalunya. With lorries being banned from driving in France on Sundays many trucks build in the frontier crossing, buying cheaper Spanish diesel and awaiting the Monday green light. A perfect market place for a whorehouse. Also with the French laws seemingly banning brothels many Frenchies pop over to Spain so knocking-shops near the border seem to be in big demand. So the local council recently approved the 100 room mega club after 4 years of fighting, whether bribes were paid for this hasnt yet been discussed but maybe it was approved as part of a step towards taking prostitution in off the streets. Around the same time in the La Jonquera area the local council also stopped fining prostitutes since they never bothered paying any of the 300 fines issued.

Both Mataro and La Jonquera are both in Catalunya, in the Girona district where a lorry driver recently admitted to having murdered at least 3 Spanish and 2 french sex workers whilst 'on the road'. Maybe the politicians of these areas have finally seen that untraceable roadside hookers with no papers who could climb in a lorry cab and never be seen again could actually be at risk yet by bringing the punters to a registered club then those risks reduce, as does the demand for roadside hookers. Maybe Jermey Clarkson was just making a sick joke about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes but it is a handy vocation if you wish to pick up untraceable hookers who might not even be reported as missing, just ask the Yorkshire Ripper, Steve Wright, and Eckert Volker as they really are so vulnerable. 

Lets see how this all goes with time.

More Legal Brothels In Barcelona

Maybe the Adjuntamiento de Barcelona (the town council) have been reading this blog!

They've just granted 45 more licenses for whorehouses in Barcelona. And they actually quoted the reason as being an attempt to reduce the exploitation of women.

Arrested In Barcelona

A previously convicted sex offender was arrested in Barcelona on suspicion of being the armed robber and rapist of at least 3 prostitutes in Barcelona and Madrid.

Well actually the Spanish police and press seem to say he IS rather than the police and press in other countries  who would say he was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime since he hasn't been found guilty yet. A minor academic point given that he was caught with false police ID, handcuffs and a gun on his way to meet a prostitute that had been lined up the same way as the other known victims. 

According to LaVanguardia he was meeting the women who worked privately from their homes via the internet, (Im guessing loquo.com as its the number 1 for this type of listing but there are many more) then when he turned up he would identify himself as a policeman, search them and take any money and valuables they had. Maybe the girls involved thought this was normal police "taxation". However he then proceeded to rape them.

I'm sure we all have our own ideas about what should happen to rapists although I think since the times of the inquisition Spanish judges haven't had access to rusty scissors. 

This tragic case may be isolated or it could be one of the few that these girls are willing to report to police to allow them to investigate. It is tragic and these things shouldn't happen. Sadly it's proof again of how if prostitution is forced underground then crimes like this can occure more easily - women working outside of the law have to think hard before going to the police. Also something like this is virtually impossible within the confines of a registered club where the girls are always in company and where the police can be called without fear.  

Lets hope this guy get what he deserves.