PRAGUE (Reuters) - Nearly 5,000 Czech police have stormed more than 400 brothels in the biggest strike against the sex slave trade in the central European country, officials say.
Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said the raids across the country on Friday night were in response to growing criticism, both at home and abroad, that police were doing little to contain the illegal sex trade.
"We decided to take this action because the slave trade is considered the third most profitable kind of international crime," Gross told a hastily arranged late-night news conference.
He said foreign women detained in the raids would be given a chance to win residency permits if they co-operated with police.
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