Investigators are in four districts of Leipzig on Wednesday.
You search multiple properties - in more than one process.
Leipzig - In connection with two different proceedings, the police, federal police and customs searched objects in several districts of Leipzig on Wednesday.
Although the investigations were close together, there is no connection, said a spokesman for the federal police.
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Federal police caught two people smugglers in the act
The federal police picked up more than 30 refugees in the Görlitz region over the weekend and caught two people smugglers in the act.
The federal police announced on Monday that the refugees were in different places at different times.
On Saturday alone, 17 migrants from Iraq were picked up in Görlitz and Kodersdorf - including two children between the ages of two and five.
Federal police caught two people smugglers in the act
Children are said to have placed concrete slabs on the tracks
A train in the Main-Tauber district was damaged by concrete slabs laid on the tracks.
Nobody was injured by the impact on Saturday, as the federal police announced on Monday.
Alerted police officers discovered three eight, nine and ten-year-old children near the railway line near Lauda-Königshofen, who, according to the investigations, are said to have placed the obstacles on the tracks.
Children are said to have placed concrete slabs on the tracks
Police and customs detect drug smuggling
A judge has issued arrest warrants against a man from Reinbek in the Stormarn district and an alleged accomplice who are said to have smuggled narcotics on a large scale from Spain to Germany.
The Lübeck public prosecutor's office had submitted the application.
The 26-year-old alleged accomplice was arrested in Hamburg, the prosecution announced on Friday.
Police and customs detect drug smuggling
The authority searched three properties in different parts of the city on behalf of the Leipzig public prosecutor's office.
It was about the suspicion of aiding and abetting illegal residence in several cases, as the federal police announced.
According to the information, it will be determined against three Chinese nationals between the ages of 40 and 48 who live in Leipzig and run an import-export business.
They are accused of having given countrymen refuge even though they did not have a residence permit for Germany.
Presumably they were also preoccupying them.
The investigators searched the accused's homes and vehicles as well as a commercial property of the accused in the Leipzig districts of Paunsdorf, Lindenau and Böhlitz-Ehrenberg.
They secured smartphones, business documents and storage media.
They also met a person who was staying in Germany without permission.
This should be brought to the responsible immigration authority.
In another case, the police and customs raided several properties on Eisenbahnstrasse.
The investigation was on suspicion of illegal employment of foreigners and evasion of social security contributions, said a spokeswoman for the main customs office in Dresden.
It was an examination independent of suspicion in which 51 people were asked about their employment relationships.
In eight cases this gave rise to suspicions, which are now being examined by the financial control of illegal employment.
dpa
