Tag: smugglers
Suspected people smugglers arrested across Europe – BBC News
Police in at least five different European countries have detained dozens of people accused of smuggling people across the English Channel to the UK. It is thought the criminal network brought up to 10,000 migrants in small boats in a period of 12-18 months. In Germany, 18 suspects were arrested as hundreds of officers swooped in on locations across the country. A main focus of…
The Afghans turning to people smugglers to flee their country – BBC News
Near the Pakistan border thousands of Afghans are turning to people smugglers to escape Afghanistan and its new Taliban government. People traffickers have always operated on this border but where they once bribed corrupt officials to let them through they now pay a fee to the Taliban government Most are young men with no passport or visa who hope to go from Pakistan on to…