In a prison on the island of Chios, a dozen migrants, mostly Syrians, are serving sentences after Greek justice prosecuted them as smugglers. InfoMigrants met with them. Charlotte Oberti reports.
A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe – part of a continent-wide attempt to crack down on the lucrative criminal networks.
The UK government announced on Tuesday it would be seeking to force tech platforms to remove videos of migrants crossing the Channel if they showed that crossing in a "positive light." The measure is part of a draft bill which still needs to be passed by both houses of parliament.
The tragic story of Fawwaz as told by his relatives to ANSA bears many similarities to that of many Syrians, betrayed and cheated by human smugglers and soldiers when crossing borders.
The trial of Mohammad Hanad, a Somali migrant sentenced to 142 years in prison in 2021 for "facilitating illegal entry" into Greece, took place on Monday on the island of Lesbos. The following day 24 volunteers and aid workers, also accused of people smuggling, appeared before the same court. Charlotte Oberti reports for InfoMigrants.
An Eritrean man accused of being involved in a migrant smuggling network appeared at a pretrial hearing in the Netherlands. Prosecutors said they will also seek the extradition of the network's alleged ringleader, who was captured in Sudan earlier this month in connection with the same case.
German federal police have uncovered the smuggling of ten Syrians in the eastern state of Saxony near the Polish border. In a similar case on December 26, federal police in the southern state of Bavaria thwarted a smuggling attempt of 16 Syrian and Bangladeshi migrants coming from Italy.
A migrant has died in an accident involving a fully loaded minibus in northeastern Greece. Another three migrants were seriously injured, Greek state radio reported. Smugglers in the region are known to repeatedly try to bring migrants from the Greek-Turkish border into western Greece, frequently leading to fatal accidents.
German police has arrested four suspects who are accused of smuggling at least 300 migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq to Germany. Police say that the men charged up to €10,000 per person.
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Police in the UK have arrested a 32-year-old man suspected of having played a key role in the fatal Channel crossing incident one year ago. The man was detained in southwestern in the UK town of Cheltenham following a joint investigation by UK and French authorities.
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