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Germany: Nine Iraqi Kurds arrested for
people trafficking
4.4.2007 |
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ring charged up to 10,000 euros to transport people
from Kurdistan region (northern Iraq) to Germany and
on to Sweden and Denmark.
April 4, 2007
German police said Tuesday that they had arrested
nine Iraqis, most of them refugees of Kurdish
origin, suspected of being involved in smuggling
some 100 Iraqis into Europe over the past four
weeks.
German police said on Tuesday they had arrested nine
Iraqis suspected of helping to run a human
trafficking ring.
Police believe the suspects, arrested in southern
Bavaria and the northern state of Lower Saxony, have
smuggled some 100 Iraqis into Germany and onto
Sweden and Denmark in the last four weeks. |
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"There are indications that those arrested organised
the transportation of people who were smuggled in
inhuman conditions," police from the Bavarian town
of Schwandorf said in a statement.
"Despite these criminal circumstances, the ring
cashed in up to 10,000 euros ($13,360) for the
people smuggled from Kurdistan (northern Iraq) to
Sweden," the statement said.
The suspects are Iraqis, mainly of Kurdish origin,
who had sought asylum in Germany, said the police,
noting that the organisation's connections stretched
to the Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Sweden and
Syria.
pbs org | Reuters
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