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| Germany arrests 9 Iraqis for human trafficking |
| 2007-04-04 |
| BERLIN - 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. ‘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 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. |
| Posted by:Steve White |