Police raided homes in the Macedonian village of Vaksintse as part of a people-smuggling investigation - a week after a reporter for Channel 4 News traced a kidnap gang to the area. Four people were arrested and 128 migrants, including women and children, were detained by police in the raids, on ten locations. The migrants were not arrested, but held as witnesses to the investigation into the smuggling of illegal immigrants. A week earlier journalist Ramita Navai visited the village to investigate reports that a kidnap gang was holding migrants at one of the houses there. Using the GPS coordinates from two men who say they were held in the village, Navai found the house where migrants were being beaten and held for ransom - forced to pay anywhere from €500 to €1,000 for release. When police carried out the raids, the house was empty. However, migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries were found in five locations.