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Police across Europa
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have arrested about 130 people suspected of involvement in human trafficking in a joint operation carried out by 22 countries, the international police agency Europol said on Tuesday.
The police actions, which took place in the week up to June 13, also led to more than 100 possible victims of human trafficking being identified, Europol said.
During the operation, coordinated by the EU border agency Frontex, checks on almost 1 million persons and 200,000 vehicles were carried out at sea, land and air borders, mainly on heavily utilized routes into Europe.
Fifteen countries from across the EU participated in the actions, alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Britannia and Liechtenstein. About 22,500 law enforcement officers took part.
Police bust scheme to smuggle ‘thousands’ to UK in boats
[Dawn] Police across several European countries on Tuesday launched a major coordinated crackdown on criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle people into the UK, British and German authorities said.
Officers staged dawn raids in Belgium, Britannia, La Belle France, the Netherlands and Germany, said police in the northwestern German city of Osnabrueck, considered a hub for the traffickers.
Britannia’s National Crime Agency said the sting was "believed to be the biggest ever international operation targeting criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle thousands of people into the UK".
Officers made six arrests in the Docklands and Catford areas of London, the NCA said.
In Germany, some 900 police carried out searches of 36 sites and arrested 18 suspects in an operation coordinated by Europol and European Union
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judicial agency Eurojust, they said in a statement.
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