Greiling: Migrant family is spared a trip in the hold between junk

Created: 01/11/2023 13:05

By: Daniel Wegscheider

There were nine migrants in a VW van.

They had previously been smuggled across the German-Austrian border.

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Greiling – A Turkish extended family with Kurdish descent fled their homeland and spent several weeks with a smuggler organization.

In Bad Tölz, the police discovered her on the loading area of ​​a van.

Thanks to a police check on the B13, a migrant family of nine, including three children, was spared a long journey between building materials and buckets on the loading area of ​​a VW van.

Officers from the Bad Tölz Police Inspectorate stopped the vehicle with a Regensburg license plate at around 8:40 p.m. last Sunday (January 8) during a traffic check on the B 13 near Greiling.

Smuggler organization leaves refugee family in Bad Tölz

According to the current status of the investigation, the federal police in Rosenheim assume that the nine Turkish nationals were picked up in Bad Tölz after they had previously been illegally smuggled across the German-Austrian border and then dropped off.

"Since the migrants had been left behind by their smugglers, they called a person they knew who already lives in Germany," explains federal police spokesman Rainer Scharf.

The man called, a 23-year-old Turk, and his 26-year-old companion, who is also originally from Turkey, drove to Bad Tölz in the van.

There they assigned their compatriots a place on the loading area.

After a few minutes of driving between building materials and waste, the car then got into the traffic control.

The two collectors were able to identify themselves with German residence permits.

In contrast, the other adults, three women aged 19, 23 and 39 and three men aged between 20 and 42 and children aged 7, 9 and 13, had no entry or residence papers.

They wanted to go to Hanover, where a relative of theirs is supposed to live.

Extended Turkish family on the run for several weeks - father sells the house to pay the smugglers

The migrants were taken to the Federal Police in Rosenheim.

"There they described that they had already been on the road for several weeks," reports Scharf.

They fled their homeland.

The smuggler organization demanded more than 30,000 euros for the trip via Bosnia, Italy and Austria.

"In order to pay the smugglers, the children's father sold his house in Turkey."

In the meantime, the investigations are directed against the smuggler organization.

The two people who picked them up were able to leave the police station after they had been reported on suspicion of aiding and abetting illegal residence.

The family is accommodated in a reception center for refugees.