Investigations are ongoing to identify, tackle and dismantle organised crime groups involved in movements of migrants entering Europe via the Western Mediterranean Route to the UK. Recently, Europol supported Spanish Guardia Civil in dismantling a criminal group smuggling Spanish migrants and refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria into the UK. The gang used regular ferries from the northern Spanish ports of Santander and Santurtzi to carry out their criminal activities. Their modus operandi was to smuggle the migrants through restricted areas at the ports and hide them in trailers, containers, caravans and lorries waiting to board the ferries in restricted parking bays.
Smuggling migrants from Spain to the UK
Written by Super User 13 Apr 2018Additional Info
- Pray: for God to give even more wisdom and insight to Europol’s European Migrant Smuggling Centre as they investigate and cross-check illegal movement of vulnerable people. (Psalm 3:7)
- More: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/iraqi-group-busted-for-smuggling-migrants-spain-to-uk
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