Police in India have broken up an alleged human trafficking ring which sent young boys to France on the pretext of putting them on rugby tours.
The Central Bureau of Investigation in India arrested three men after they allegedly tricked the families of 25 children into sending them to France for what they said was a rugby camp.
Once the boys arrived in France in early 2016, they were reportedly taken to a temple in Paris and stripped of their passports.
The case only came to light this year after two of the boys escaped and another was found by French police, who passed word of the trafficking ring to Interpol.
The fate of the other 22 boys remains unclear and it is feared they may have been shipped out of France.
The alleged traffickers drew up fake invitations from the French Rugby Federation to convince the children's parents.
They also reportedly organised an actual rugby training session in India to show parents that the scheme was authentic.
It is unclear why the alarm wasn't raised earlier for the missing children.
Source: The Telegraph
