The Mossos prevent the cutting and forced marriage of 3 sisters residing in Lleida

The Mossos d'Esquadra have prevented three sisters residing in the province of Lleida, two of them minors, from being victims of a forced marriage and female genital mutilation, in a case in which they have questioned the parents, but in the that at the moment there are no detainees.

As the newspaper Segre has advanced and police sources have confirmed to EFE, last June the Mossos were alerted to the imminent risk of the three sisters given the possibility that they would travel with their family to their country of origin, in the Sahel, and that there subjected to cutting and forced to marry against their will.

The Mossos, who were alerted by the educational environment and the reference clinic of the three girls, residents of a town in the Lleida region of La Segarra, applied the protocol provided for this type of case, in which the passport is usually withheld from those affected to prevent them from traveling.