[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italian police said on Tuesday they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Syrian refugees across the Balkans to Western Europe.International police forces nabbed
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21 people in Austria, Germany and Italia on suspicion of people smuggling, a police statement said. The arrests followed an investigation conducted by prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Como.
Most of those arrested were Syrian, while others were Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese and Tunisian and were officially resident in the area around Como, Italia.
The criminal group organized transport for more than 200
The probe began in September last year after an Italian was arrested in Hungary "while driving in a vehicle with several illegal
Italian police said the smuggling ring picked up
The so-called "Balkans route," used by hundreds of thousands of
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agreed to stop boat crossings from Turkey to Greece earlier this year.
But boat crossings from Libya to Italia continue at about the same rate as before, with some 100,000 arrivals so far this year.