Police in
Thailand on Thursday morning, March 2nd, hauled off 40 African prostitutes off
the streets in efforts to clean up Pattaya's image.
This follows
the previous round up, which took place last Friday, where 20 African
prostitutes, who claimed to be tourists, were arrested and taken to the police
station for questioning.
The raid on
Walking Street and Beach Road was led by Netithorn Ratanasuchanan with local
cops as well as police volunteers.
Sanook.com
reported that the black women, mostly from Madagascar, Nigeria and Uganda, all
denied any claims of prostitution, but after observing their behaviour
beforehand, police were confident that they were in fact selling themselves for
money
Sanook said
that all were on tourist visas but were selling themselves. They said they
catered to tourists with certain tastes.
However, there
were no reports of any action taken against the women. Police just said that
the crackdown would continue as they attempted to clean up Pattaya's image.
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