POLICE in Ibiza have rescued a 21 prostitutes aged as young as 16 who were beaten with broom handles if they did not bring in more than £900 a day from sex tourists.
The Nigerian victims had been lured to Spain with fake promises of jobs but were forced to work 14 hours a day selling their bodies.
Video footage shows officers battering down the door of one brothel in an exclusive district of Ibiza.
Inside they found huge bundles of 50 euro notes stuffed inside shoes.
Another sinister discovery appeared to be razor blades concealed in a woman's knickers.
Police said 17 women had been kept in one small apartment, with up to four girls forced to share a bed.
They were only allowed out occasionally to buy food or meet clients, and were also subjected to voodoo rituals and warned that their relatives would be killed if they did not co-operate.
A spokesman said: “If they didn’t earn 1,000 euros a day, they would be forced to kneel for hours and beaten with sticks and brooms.”
They were rescued in a major police operation by the Policia Nacional in partnership with Europol and cops in Germany.
It led to the arrest of 24 suspects, including two female ringleaders.
The Nigerian women had been smuggled into Europe on boats and planes and kept on the Spanish mainland last winter before being taken to Ibiza for the summer season when the island is flooded with tourists.
The women were told they would have to buy their freedom by earning up to £50,000 through prostitution and paying it to their gang masters.
One of the gang was arrested in Germany where he had tried to hide and five others were found to be members of the 1960s cult called Supreme Eiye Confraternity.
Seven properties were raided in Spain and Germany and 20 bank accounts frozen.
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