migrant trafficking

Greek police in Thessaloniki arrested two suspects for migrant trafficking after they discovered 44 migrants in a warehouse in the city on Christmas Day. Two Romanians, a 34-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman, were taken into custody, accused of migrant...

Authorities in northern Greece say the Greek police have shot a migrant trafficking suspect who allegedly was transporting 10 Pakistani migrants inside a van that crashed during a highway chase. Greek police said the 22-year-old suspect was driving a van...

Greek and European authorities announced on Tuesday that a migrant-trafficking ring bringing mainly Syrian irregular migrants to Greece via Turkey had been uncovered with the assistance and support of Europol, leading to 16 arrests. Based on their investigation,...

Police in Heraklion, Crete, have located several safe houses where illegal immigrants were held by a human-trafficking ring. A total of nine – one Greek and eight Syrians  – traffickers were arrested for holding 47 immigrants captive, among them young...