Some 80 percent of its younger residents are unemployed, and a family can count itself lucky if it owns a garden to grow potatoes and vegetables. She talks about why she wanted to get away from home four years ago, just after she had turned She talks about her father, who drank and beat his wife, and sometimes abused his daughter, too.
Alina had no job and no money. Through a friend's new boyfriend, she heard about the possibilities available in Germany. Alina began thinking about the idea. The brothel specialized in flat-rate sex. It all went very quickly, says Alina. There were other Romanians there who knew the man who had brought them there. She was told to hand over her clothes and was given revealing lingerie to wear instead.
Only a few hours after her arrival, she was expected to greet her first customers. She says that when she wasn't nice enough to the clients, the Romanians reduced her wages. The Berlin customers paid their fee at the entrance. Many took drugs to improve sexual performance and could last all night. A line often formed outside Alina's room.
She says that she eventually stopped counting how many men got into her bed. She shared a bed in a sleeping room with three other women. There was no other furniture. All she saw of Germany was the Esso gas station around the corner, where she was allowed to go to buy cigarettes and snacks, but only in the company of a guard.
The rest of the time, says Alina, she was kept locked up in the club. Prosecutors learned that the women in the club had to offer vaginal, oral and anal sex, and serve several men at the same time in so-called gangbang sessions. The men didn't always use condoms.
