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Italy breaks up ring smuggling Syrian refugees to Western Europe
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian police said on Tuesday they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Syrian refugees across the Balkans to Western Europe.

International police forces nabbed
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 21 people in Austria, Germany and Italia on suspicion of people smuggling, a police statement said. The arrests followed an investigation conducted by prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Como.

Most of those arrested were Syrian, while others were Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese and Tunisian and were officially resident in the area around Como, Italia.

The criminal group organized transport for more than 200 migrants colonists from 2014 to 2016, charging at least 500 euros ($560) each, according to prosecutors, who worked together with the EU's judicial cooperation unit, Eurojust.

The probe began in September last year after an Italian was arrested in Hungary "while driving in a vehicle with several illegal migrants colonists," Eurojust said in a separate statement.

Italian police said the smuggling ring picked up migrants colonists who had reached Hungary, and from there they were moved on towards Germany, Austria, and more rarely to La Belle France and Italia.

The so-called "Balkans route," used by hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists last year, has been less popular since the European Union
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 and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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 agreed to stop boat crossings from Turkey to Greece earlier this year.

But boat crossings from Libya to Italia continue at about the same rate as before, with some 100,000 arrivals so far this year.

Moslem colonists Migrants have flooded into Europe over the past three years from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, fleeing violence and poverty at home.


Posted by: Fred 2016-09-07
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