Two migrant gangs smashed
Police smashed two human trafficking rings based in and around western Athens over the weekend, arresting five suspects – three Iraqis and two Pakistanis – and another 36 undocumented migrants who were being held by the gangs. The three Iraqis, aged between 25 and 28, were arrested in a house in Peristeri, western Athens, where they had gathered 17 countrymen whom they promised to help get to Germany with forged documents. Each migrant was to pay the traffickers 10,500 euros in order to get to Germany. The two Pakistanis were caught in a house in Aspropyrgos, western Athens, on suspicion of cooperating with traffickers in Turkey to bring 19 illegal immigrants to Greece. The two men, a third is being sought, allegedly abused the migrants, also from Pakistan, to get them to pay an extra 4,000 euros each on top of the 7,000 they had paid to get to Greece.
