European Parliament
Maria Carlshamre (ALDE ),
in writing
I voted against the ALDE Group on paragraph 46 concerning criminalizing the clients who deliberately exploit persons in a situation of coercion. Whereas the ALDE Group line was to vote ‘No’ to this I believe that people that deliberately buy women/girls who are forced into prostitution should be seen as committing a crime similar to the crime of buying stolen goods – that is, fencing. And I think even the Member States that today are against criminalizing the buying of sex could introduce this as a criminal offence.

