As of: February 20, 2024, 3:44 p.m
By: Andreas Seiler
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Split
The police, water rescue service and medical service were deployed to care for and investigate the five migrants.
© Wasserwacht Walchensee
The business of illegal entry into Germany is flourishing.
The smugglers are brazen and unscrupulous.
Five migrants at Walchensee are evidence of this.
Walchensee – Five migrants were simply dropped off on Federal Highway 11 in the Walchensee area on Monday morning (February 19th).
The people - an 18-year-old Iraqi woman and four Syrians between the ages of 21 and 24 - were drenched and hypothermic.
They were cared for by the Walchensee water rescue service and a local medical service.
Further treatment in a hospital was not necessary, as the Rosenheim Federal Police reported.
Federal police have taken over investigations
After a witness tipped off, officers from the Mittenwald border police first met the group of five at the Herzogstandbahn parking lot.
The four men and the woman had previously asked in English that law enforcement officers be called because they had been dropped off by a smuggler and left to fend for themselves.
The federal police took over the investigation against the driver who is said to have brought the refugees across the German-Austrian border early in the morning.
The Iraqi and Syrians said they walked about two kilometers.
The smuggler asked them to leave the car with a Slovenian license plate.
They didn't have any papers with them.
Route via Türkiye and Slovenia
A smuggling organization allegedly demanded several thousand US dollars per person for the illegal immigration, which led in stages via Turkey and Slovenia to Germany.
The migrants were taken to the federal police in Rosenheim.
They then went to a contact center for refugees.