The Mossos d’Esquadra have prevented three sisters living in the province of Lleida, two of them minors, from becoming victims of forced marriage and female genital mutilation by interviewing their parents, but no arrests have been made at this time.
As reported by the Segre newspaper and police sources confirmed to EFE, last June the Mossos were warned of the impending danger for the three sisters, given the possibility that they would travel with their family to their country of origin in the Sahel that they would be mutilated there and forced to marry against their will.
The Mossos, alarmed by the educational environment and the reference clinic of the three girls, residents of a town in the Segarra region, applied the protocol envisaged for this type of case, in which those affected are usually withheld their passport, to prevent them from traveling . Despite progress, three million girls still undergo genital mutilation each year, Unicef laments. More than 600,000 women suffer from the effects of female genital mutilation in Europe and another 190,000 residents in 17 European countries are at risk of this harmful practice, reports the European Network to End FGM.
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