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EU wants tighter visa rules to stymie World Cup sex trade

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS -Justice commissioner Franco Frattini has suggested that visa requirements should be re-introduced for all non-EU citizens travelling to Germany for this summer's football world cup.

The move comes as a response to outcries from NGOs and politicians about an expected boom of forced prostitution during the sports event, with estimates of the total number of women and girls that may be brought to Germany for sexual purposes varying from 40,000 to 100,000.

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