The woman, a 19 year-old Bulgarian prostitute, had been stabbed more than 20 times. The French media dedicated several articles on the murder and called the victim by its real name: Ginka. At the time, the French police only investigated the murder and, once the murderer was sentenced, closed the case without ever investigating the criminal network that exploited Ginka. A French journalist and a ditto movie director did. Around , girls from Eastern Europe invaded the avenues of the capitals and major cities of Western Europe.
Like Ginka, these girls were born in Communism and raised in its aftermath. Up until then, in Paris, as in most other cities, street prostitution used to be limited to very specific areas at very specific times of the day.
Yet, the East European criminal networks revolutionised the scene: they put their girls on traffic arteries. The girls worked in shifts. While some girls were on display, others waited their turn around the corner. They wore wigs and changed clothes in between tricks in order to give clients the impression that a multitude of girls was available. But most all, their bottom-rock prices undercut local competitors.
Right after the Fall of Communism, the average purchasing power in Germany was 8 times higher than in neighbouring and former-Communist Czech Republic. Western men looked for poor East European girls who were deprived of healthcare, social security,โฆ The networks soon realised that real business was not selling white flesh at local rates in Zlotys or Korunas, but at West-European rates in Pound Sterling, Deutsch Mark or French francs. Apparently, they enjoy talking to foreigners which they can charge the same tariff as locals, but in Euros.
One speaks Italian. She says she used to work in Bari and for a while in France. Another one has been working in Hamburg and speaks German.
