The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested a man in east London who they suspect was a "leading figure in an organized crime group supplying significant numbers of small boats to people smugglers."
Greek police on the island of Rhodes announced on Monday that they arrested four suspected migrant smugglers. Another three people allegedly connected to their smuggling network were arrested in Athens.
Turkish newspaper Hürriyet has reported that at least 246 irregular migrants have been detained in three separate "security operations" across Turkey.
A German court handed jail terms to a Polish couple accused of smuggling a group of 16 Kurdish migrants from Belarus, across Poland to Germany.
Greek police have detained at least four people after a protest against the building of a new migrant camp on the island of Lesbos turned violent.
Seven migrants were found in the back of a truck in Bremen on Wednesday. The migrants were all aged between 15 and 25. The truck driver told police he had not known about the stowaways.
On Tuesday, Italian police rounded up four suspected members of a Nigerian mafia-like gang known as Black Ax. The suspects are charged with slavery, human trafficking, kidnapping and recruiting prostitutes. Behind this case lies a vast system of exploitation that stretches across Africa and Europe
German police have intercepted a truck with several migrants hiding inside. The incident occurred just outside a small town near Germany’s former capital, Bonn.
Police in North Macedonia say that they have discovered 53 people crammed inside a truck. The driver of the vehicle was reportedly arrested during the police operation.
Eighteen people from Afghanistan and Romania have been arrested in a major cross-border police operation. The men are suspected of smuggling mostly Afghan migrants in lorries from Romania into Germany.
Newspapers are reporting that a group of eight Iranian Kurdish migrants were fired at by French police as they attempted to launch a boat on the French coast near Dunkirk. The migrants, who were hoping to make it to the UK, were hit by rubber bullets. At least two were injured.
A 40-year-old Sudanese man, armed with a knife, has died after being shot by German police. The incident took place at a home for asylum seekers near the German city of Bremen.