People Smugglers Kill Again: Spanish Police Arrest Three over Deaths of Five Forced to Jump Overboard
Spanish police arrested three people for the deaths of migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off a smuggler boat.
Spanish police arrested three people for the deaths of migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off a smuggler boat.
Greek authorities found 84 boat migrants and arrested four individuals, accusing them of being the traffickers that transported them.
Thirteen unaccompanied minors are among over 300 Indian passengers on a flight to Nicaragua held in France over suspected human trafficking.
A boat carrying migrants capsized off the Turkish Aegean coastal province of Izmir on Monday, killing at least five people.
A fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants became grounded, killing five people and leaving about 20 missing off the coast of Sicily.
Police in Cyprus said Tuesday they had arrested 10 Syrian men in an operation that has dismantled a people smuggling ring bringing migrants.
More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.
Italy has seen the number of illegal boat migrants landing on its shores double over last year, reaching nearly 90,000 in just seven months.
Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos.
Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef Sunday.
German police have lost track of a suspected trafficking “kingpin” after he exploited an EU human rights loophole to be freed from prison.
The average number of migrants per English Channel smuggler boat hit an all-time high last month, analysis of government statistics reveals.
Czech police said Tuesday that they have broken up an international ring suspected of smuggling migrants from Turkey to western Europe.
The alleged ringleaders of an Albanian people smuggling gang bringing illegal migrants to the UK in small boats have been arrested.
The Greek coast guard said that a ship that went down off the country’s south coast left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.
Despite thousands of boats bringing illegal migrants to Britain, the government only managed to charge 82 people smugglers last year.
At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy.
An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.
Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.
A vessel carrying over 100 migrants shipwrecked off the coast off the southern Italian region of Calabria Sunday morning leaving at least 43 dead and scores missing.
NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.
A British couple was handed prison sentences for joining a migrant smuggling ring and bringing illegals to the UK hidden in couches.
73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya.
Court sentenced six members of a people smuggling network operating in the English Channel to between two and five years in prison.
Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage.
Deaths of migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece surged in 2022 according to the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.
The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.
Over half of boat migrants referred to the programme for victims of modern slavery — a potential “loophole” to avoid deportation — hail from Albania, a report from Migration Watch UK has claimed.
A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.
Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.
An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is ending a policy that allowed illegal immigrants to use the platform to seek people smugglers to ferry them across the U.S. border, admitting that much of the activity is tantamount to “human exploitation” and “overlaps” with human trafficking.
Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France.
Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.
A people smuggler allegedly bragged to an undercover journalist that he is in contact with migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean.
A Calais fisherman claims to have witnessed people smugglers pushing migrants into the waters of the English Channel.
Two people smugglers were arrested in Hungary on Monday after they shot at police with 21 asylum seekers crammed into their vehicle.
The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel has escalated to the point that up to two per cent of “the entire adult male population of Albania” have now landed in Britain, according to the top border official for crossings.
The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.