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dpaCrime & justice

Un chauffeur musulman a été arrêté alors qu'il transportait 25 enfants en Ouzbékistan destinés à un trafic sexuel.

Publisher’s rating: Il n'existe aucune preuve que cet évènement soit lié à un trafic d'enfants. Selon les informations relayées par le Service ouzbek de la sécurité routière, la voiture en question était conduite par une puéricultrice employée dans un jardin d'enfants.

The claim concerns a viral video said to show a Muslim man arrested in Uzbekistan while transporting 25 children for sexual trafficking. The review traced the footage to an incident in Gijduvan district and reports that Uzbek media said the Road Safety Service had released the video. A longer version was posted on YouTube on 16 September 2023. According to the longer video, as translated by a Deutsche Presse-Agentur correspondent, the person driving was a nursery worker employed at a private kindergarten. Police stopped the crowded vehicle, and Uzbek media reported that she was taking the children home. The source describes a safety concern: the worker said this was her first time transporting them that way, and police stressed the danger. The review says the footage and reporting do not identify a male driver or contain an admission of child trafficking. It therefore does not support the social-media account that the children were being transported for sexual exploitation or organ trafficking.