13 migrants found squashed into cars at border

One of the cars used to thrust migrants west from the Turkish border. [Handout/Hellenic Police]

Two radical person been arrested successful the northeastern Evros portion connected suspicion of belonging to smuggling rings that picked up migrants who had illegally crossed the onshore borderline with Turkey and drove them west towards Thessaloniki, authorities said Sunday. 

A constabulary statement said the two abstracted arrests were made Saturday successful the areas of Didymoteicho and Kyprinos. The suspects were lone identified arsenic overseas nationals. 

In the 1 lawsuit the suspect was stopped driving a αυτοκίνητο with 7 migrants squashed into it, and the different suspect had six radical successful his vehicle.

Although Greek authorities person built a obstruction on overmuch of the Evros onshore borderline with Turkey, thousands of radical from the Middle East and Africa still try to get across, hoping to determination connected from Greece to question a amended beingness successful Europe’s prosperous heartland.

So acold this year, astir 2,000 radical person entered the state crossed the Evros border, according to United Nations data.