In the arrest of four traffickers who were involved in domestic promotion on two separate occasions Immigrants who entered illegally, the police officers of the Directorate proceeded to Police Alexandroupolis.

In particular, yesterday afternoon, the police of the Border Protection Department and the Rapid Response Team of the Police Department of Alexandroupolis detained two foreigners in Egnatia Odos, who, moving in an ICHE car, acted as escorts in order to avoid police checks in another ICHE car, which was driven by there was a third smuggler and eight migrants on board who did not have travel documents.

The driver of the vehicle carrying the migrants disobeyed a stop sign from the police and continued to drive dangerously, fleeing on foot after stopping the vehicle to be identified and subsequently detained in the mountainous region of Evros.

On the same day, a second trafficker was arrested in Egnatia Street, Alexandroupolis-Komotini. A smuggler driver who does not have a driver’s license allegedly smuggled three immigrants in an ICHE vehicle. The detainees will be taken to the Prosecutor’s Office of the First Instance of Alexandroupolis.

^{Source: APE-MEB}