Migrant traffickers arrested in Thessaloniki
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Police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, announced on Saturday the arrest of a total of five people in three different cases of alleged migrant smuggling.
More specifically, a 38-year-old foreign national was arrested on Friday on the Egnatia national motorway for illegally transporting three migrants with no travel documents.
On the same day, and again on Egnatia, a 24-year-old foreign national was caught transporting eight migrants who lacked the proper documents. Another two accomplices, aged 47 and 21, were also arrested.
Lastly, a 29-year-old man was apprehended in the same area for transporting two undocumented migrants.
