Hungarian Police Take Suspected Human Traffickers Into Custody
- 31 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
Hungarian police took into custody the drivers of three vehicles suspected of human trafficking, the Budapest police headquarters said. The police took into custody a Lithuanian driving a vehicle with Lithuanian number plates carrying twelve Syrians in the country illegally. The police later took into custody an Austrian driver in a vehicle with Austrian number plates carrying five Syrian passengers in the country illegally as well as a Polish driver in a vehicle with French number plates carrying seven Syrians in the country illegally.
The drivers, all stopped on the M1 motorway, had been paid to take their passengers to Germany illegally. Hungarian police also took into custody four Romanians driving a truck carrying 21 migrants in the country illegally.
The police stopped a car, with Bulgarian number plates, leading a truck on the M5 motorway, near Hungary’s border with Serbia.
Ten Syrians and eleven Afghans, all in the country illegally, were found in the truck. A criminal procedure has been launched against the Romanians on suspicion of human trafficking.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu - Visit Hungary Matters to sign-up for MTI’s twice-daily newsletter.
MTI photo: Ujvári Sándor
LATEST NEWS IN current affairs