Status: 02.09.2023, 18:11 p.m.
By: Johannes Welte
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The smuggler's car remained on the roof. © Volunteer Fire Brigade Simbach am Inn
A car with ten migrants on board crashed into a house wall on Tuesday morning while fleeing from police in Lower Bavaria. The Federal Police are registering more and more illegal entries.
Simbach am Inn – Smugglers and migrants are risking more and more to cross the border into Germany: Early Tuesday morning, a suspected smuggler fleeing from the police raced at up to 100 km/h through the city center of Simbach am Inn (Rottal-Inn district).
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Nissan driver ignored border police stop signs
Daniel Gibis of the Federal Police Inspectorate in Passau told the PNP: "Colleagues wanted to check a Nissan with a French registration at around one o'clock after it had crossed the Simbach border crossing." However, the driver ignored the stop signs. While fleeing, the driver, who comes from Bulgaria, lost control of his car and crashed into a house wall.
The car overturned and came to rest on the roof of the road. The driver initially fled on foot, but was soon arrested by a patrol of the Pfarrkirchen police station. According to Gibis, there were ten Turkish nationals in the car, two of them in the trunk.
Smugglers complained of pain
"The women and men between the ages of 18 and 44 complained of pain and were taken to surrounding hospitals by the emergency services, six are still in inpatient treatment," Gibis continued. The Nissan (value: around 25,000 euros), which was reported stolen, was a total loss. A parked car and the house were also damaged.
Six injured migrants were hospitalized, four were able to leave the clinic by early Tuesday afternoon. There was no danger to life. The 23-year-old is now being investigated, among other things, for smuggling under life-threatening conditions. What happens to the migrants is still being decided, the federal police said. They had been reported for unauthorized entry.
At the weekend, more than 200 people tried to enter Bavaria illegally
At the weekend, there had already been several large-scale smuggling: In Waidhaus (Upper Palatinate) on the Czech border, a smuggler transported 29 Syrians on a small truck on Sunday. On Friday, the police picked up a total of 75 people in the Bavarian Forest in the Freyung area. 34 were crammed into a van, some of them dehydrated.
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Police officers stand at a pickup truck during a check in Linz (Austria). The officers discovered 53 people on the loading area. © Werner Kerschbaummayr/Fotokersch/APA/dpa
At the Walserberg border crossing near Freilassing, a smuggler fleeing from the Austrian police rammed a patrol car on Saturday, she had eleven migrants with her, and in Linz (Austria) 53 migrants who wanted to go to Germany were discovered in a truck on Sunday. Most of the immigrants are from Turkey.
Number of smuggling operations has almost doubled in two years
The Federal Police Directorate in Munich, which is responsible for Bavaria's border guard, registered a total of around 13,500 unauthorized entries from January to July this year. In the same period last year, there were 12,591 cases. In 2021, only 7453 people had tried to enter Bavaria illegally. Nationwide, 56,052 unauthorized entries have been recorded so far this year.
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