Germany: “The Rule of Law” and the Modern Slavery

Any slavery exists for the purpose of the full exploitation of the enslaved people. Its main function is to give the opportunity to coerce the slaves to do everything against their own will for the sake of their full exploitation. Any slaveholder state creates the legal framework, allowing the coercion and exploitation of the slaves. As the contemporary slaveholder states are masked as “democracies” and “rules of law” they can do whatever they want only with people who formally/legally do not reside on their territories and do not exist there by documents. Now I will reveal how the laws and regulations of Germany make this possible for the vast number of sex slaves in this country i.e. now will reveal the contribution of the German lawmakers to the modern slavery.

At first glance Germany has good laws on prostitution and human trade. The penalty code forbids and punishes pimping, forced prostitution and exploitation of prostitutes. But in 2002 in expectation of the sex slaves from Eastern Europe the German Parliament passed a new prostitution law, which gave the brothel owners the rights to give instructions to the working in their establishments self-employed women. In its interpretation of the law the Constitutional Court ruled out that the brothel owners are allowed to determine the working time, the location of work and the prices of the women. Thus the Court allowed the brothel owners to do what Article 181a Pimping (2) defines as crime and punishes it. Besides, there are no formal requirements to the brothel owners in Germany – neither licenses nor criminal record certificates. Legally anyone can become there brothel owner, in reality – only those who are allowed to. I will explain what I mean with one example from Leipzig. Several years ago a new brothel was established in this town and was almost immediately vandalized. The whole Leipzig believes that the German boss of the Hungarian sex slaves Jens Kottke stands behind the vandalizing (I wrote on this to the federal police) but up to now the perpetrator is unknown. The result of this selection of brothel owners by the criminal regime in Germany is well described by the head of the criminal police in Augsburg Mr. Klaus Bayerl who wrote in his report “The situation of the prostitutes in the international human trade” that almost all brothel owners in Germany are criminals with close ties to the Organized Crime. It turns out that the German state has given the industry along with the working in it women to the Organized Crime.

The selection of the brothel owners and the actual limitation of the access to this business has another important consequence – the exploitation of the prostitutes. For flats, which would carry total costs (rent plus utilities overhead) of about 400 euro monthly, Kottke collects 85 euro daily, which makes up 2550 euro on a monthly basis.

It might sound strange but taxation and the related to it accountability are the major impediments to the exploitation of the prostitutes. If the woman is a salaried employee, her salary must comply with the accepted standards. If the woman is self-employed she has to report her revenue and her costs, which however in this case would be an evidence for a robbery of 2550 euro monthly, which is explicitly forbidden by the penalty code not to talk about the sex slaves, which in the best case end up with some 15% of their revenues. This problem – the necessity to hide the exploitation of the prostitutes, was solved by the German lawmakers already in the 60-ies, when to my mind the German rulers decided to get hold of the money from this trade. The Duesseldorf method introduces a flat-rate daily tax payment, completely independent from the revenues of the prostitutes and varying from province to province – from 5 to 15 euro. From various sources I can conclude that the monthly revenue of a prostitute in Germany is in the range between 5 000 and 8 000 euro. If we take the average flat-rate of 10 euro daily (300 euro monthly) and a revenue of 6 000 euro, we will arrive at a tax rate of only 5%. Thus the Duesseldorf method not only allows hiding revenues and thus the exploitation of the prostitutes but diverts significant funds from the state budget to the decision makers, controlling the prostitution.        

But there is more to it. The responsibility for the declaration and the payment of the taxes of the prostitutes lies not with the women but with the brothel owners. They collect the money from the women and pay in the local finance offices. While they always collect the money they do not always pay the taxes. When I mentioned to the BKA officials that Kottke might be held liable for tax evasion, they started laughing and urged me to prove this.

As you see the German lawmakers have done their best to hide the exploitation of the prostitutes in Germany. Locally they often even went further. Leipzig is one of the two towns in Germany in which street prostitution is illegal. The authorities explain their decision with public moral. This, however, is not true as the municipality papers, delivered by almost each door in town contain lots of advertisements of semi- and fully naked women from the flats of Jens Kottke. The authorities have made street prostitution illegal to force the women to exploitation in the flats of Jens Kottke and few other brothel owners, appointed by these same authorities. Another proof of this is the fact all attempts of Leipzig prostitutes to use flats on their own ended up with vandalizing of the flats and with unknown perpetrators. Again the whole town talks that this was Kottke and again prosecution and police do not know anything about this.

Although the law of 2002 recognized prostitution as a normal trade i.e. as not different from the others, prostitution remains the only legal trade in Germany, for each neither registration nor license is required. This is the formal justification why the brothel owners pay the taxes of the prostitutes.

Now I come to my major point in this article. Those of you, who have read up to now carefully, must have noticed that the procedures do not require any formal relationship between a prostitute and a state – no documents, no records, nothing. There is nothing which can prove that a woman from Hungary or Bulgaria has been let’s say in Leipzig, in one of the flats of Kottke in the period between this and that date. This is the situation, which allows the human traders to do with their victims anything they want, which is the main purpose of the German legislation and regulations. A person who is registered who pays taxes can not disappear traceless and without problems for the perpetrators but a person whose presence can’t be evidenced, can. This is also the explanation why none of the sex slaves in Germany has health insurance, which is required by law from all foreigners residing in the country and despite the fact that prostitution is risky for their health as often they are forced to provide services without condom. Sex slaves are not a party in the rent of the flats – their pimps and actual warders pay the rent to the German brothel owner from the money they have collected from their victims. The advertising pictures are not considered legally valid evidences – the BKA officials told me that these pictures are no proves that the girls on them actually have been in the brothel who advertised them. Also therefore they laughed when I mentioned tax evasion for Kottke – no presence of any of his victims in his flats can be proved.   

We see that the political class in Germany not only gave the sex industry to the Organised Crime in the country and removed all impediments for the exploitation of the prostitutes but has set up the preconditions for the full “freedom” of the criminals in the treatment of the vast number of sex slaves from Eastern Europe. Some of the consequences of this criminal “freedom” I have already described in this blog. It is because of this “freedom” that my Hungarian friend Lili with 29 years of age had to take heart drops and could not stand to be touched by the head as result of the many hard blows she had received there from her pimp.

Quite logically I did not get any response to my letter from November 21, 2010 to the Chancellor Angela Merkel and the five party fractions represented in the German parliament, in which I described the inhuman situation of the Hungarians and appealed to them to stop the brutality.

The absence of taxation and tax reporting, of any real requirements for registration and licensing are the undisputable marks of the modern sex slavery, which we shall trace not only in Germany but in other slaveholder states. The formal laws have no meaning by such realities as they are violated anyway by the decision makers. By the way, the best environment for slavery is created exactly by restrictive laws as they allow to leave the whole trade and crime for the decision makers.

The real rule of law and the modern slavery are incompatible but in Germany they seem to co-exist only because instead of rule of law there is controlled by the decision makers legal arbitrariness and criminal despotism. Rule of law in Germany exists only in the official propaganda. The much advertised good laws are neutralized by other contradicting them laws and regulations or by the “interpretations” of the competent courts

In view of the obvious inadequacy of the prostitution law already for several years there has been much talk and work on a new law but this is all simulation of activity. The main beneficiary of the slavery – the political class, will never ban slavery on its own will. If they want to do it, they know perfectly well what needs to be done. Already in ancient times the Greek statesman Solon found a comprehensive solution for the control of the prostitution, uniting the society’s interests with the human treatment of the prostitutes, the majority of whom were slaves. Even to introduce registration, licensing and taxation with the respective accountability (like for any other trade) would suffice to depart at least from the brutal slavery, described in this blog. And the existence of incompatible with the rule of law supported by the politicians and authorities Organised Crime is another vital proof for the absence of the much propagated German rule of law.