Germany deports 3 Syrian refugees and announces the arrest of a human smuggling network
BY|orient-news
Germany deports 3 Syrian refugees and announces the arrest of a human smuggling network
The German authorities deported 3 Syrian refugees to Bulgaria out of 19 they arrested in a forest in the southern state of Lower Bavaria, while the police managed to arrest a human smuggling network on the border with Austria.
The German “pnp” website said that the police arrested 19 Syrian refugees while they were walking through a forest near “Postmünster” (Rottal Inn) in Lower Bavaria a few days ago, noting that their ages ranged between 13 and 45 years.
He pointed out that the police did not find those refugees in possession of any documents or identity cards at the time of their arrest, while they said that they had smuggled into Germany by truck from the border with Austria.
The website indicated that 16 people were handed over to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the Youth Welfare Office, while it was decided to deport 3 Syrian refugees to Bulgaria because they had already applied for protection there, according to the website.
Dismantling a human smuggling ring
In this context, the German website “mainwelle” said that the authorities had arrested a number of suspected smugglers on the German-Austrian border in the Rosenheim region.
The site pointed out that the network of people smugglers includes four people who tried to bring a total of 12 people to Germany two days ago, in three different cars.
“We are currently noticing an increase in the number of cases of human smuggling,” a Federal Police spokesman said on Friday.
Two of the three cars carrying six passengers from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Palestine were already registered in Italy, where they were treated like the three Syrians and their asylum file was rejected.
According to the website, the other six in the third car are two families from Russia, who applied for asylum in Germany because of their claim to flee conscription in the Russian army following Putin’s decision to announce partial mobilization in his country after his successive losses in his war on Ukraine.
Smuggling refugees to Germany
Many Syrian refugees and of other nationalities, primarily Afghans and Russians, seek asylum in Germany through various dangerous smuggling routes. Most of them come from Turkey to Greece and so on until Austria to enter Lower Bavaria in Germany.
European countries, led by Germany, are seeking to reduce illegal immigration to it, and last September, the German police returned about 20 immigrants to the Czech Republic after they arrived in the country illegally, after tracking their movements over two days, when they arrested them and conducted investigations into their smuggling operations. .
The Supreme Administrative Court in Lower Saxony had earlier issued a ruling banning the deportation of asylum seekers to many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, where they risk being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.
Last month, an analytical report revealed an increase in illegal immigration to Europe during the third quarter of 2022, as it documented at least 155 failed illegal immigration attempts, in which approximately 4,637 illegal immigrants, most of whom were Syrians, participated. These attempts resulted in the deaths of at least 214 migrants, 224 detainees, and 225 missing persons.
