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Spain: an international network of Pakistani migrant smuggling dismantled

2021-11-04T14:55:40.811Z


Spanish police have dismantled a suspected smuggling network of hundreds of Pakistani migrants passing through dangerous conditions ...


Spanish police have dismantled a suspected smuggling network of hundreds of Pakistani migrants passing through dangerous conditions in the European Union on board trucks, an operation that resulted in the arrest of 15 people, authorities said Thursday (November 4th). .

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The network, international, had recruited Pakistani migrants in refugee camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina who sought to go to Italy or Spain, said Europol in a statement, which participated in the operation with the Spanish police.

Between 5,000 and 8,000 euros for the trip

"

They traveled in buses, vans or trucks, in dangerous conditions, spending entire days locked up with very little or no food

", detailed the European agency, adding that the network made each migrant pay between 5000 and 8000 euros for the trip.

The network, based in Spain, could have smuggled "

at least 400 migrants

" into the European Union in recent months, a traffic that would have brought in more than 2 million euros, said the Spanish police.

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The network could have existed "

for several years, and the number of migrants be much higher,

" she said in her press release. The operation, in which the Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian, Greek, Italian, French and Romanian police took part, arrested 15 people including the head of the network: 12 in Spain, one in Croatia, another in Slovenia. and yet another in Romania.

A truck carrying 77 Pakistani migrants hidden in an 8m2 cache was intercepted in Croatia, said the Spanish police.

The migrants, including four minors, traveled in inhumane conditions far too numerous for space and were forced to drill several holes in the roof in order to breathe.

The police thus estimated that a tragedy could have played out there

, ”she added.

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In October 2019, the discovery of a mass grave truck with the bodies of 39 people, probably Vietnamese, near London, had highlighted the risks to which the clandestinity and the total lack of scruples of certain traffickers push.

Source: lefigaro

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