Germany detained over 900 human traffickers in 2016
Published time: 8 Jan, 2017 23:23
Edited time: 9 Jan, 2017 11:00
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Germany detained over 900 human traffickers in 2016
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Germany detained about 900 human traffickers in 2016 – more than half of them on the border with Austria – according to Interior Ministry data cited by
Most of the smugglers, 481, were caught on the Austrian border by December 2016. On the borders with Poland and Czech Republic, 155 and 106 people were arrested respectively. Forty five arrests were made on the Belgian border, and almost 90 traffickers were caught entering from France. Germany’s airport security registered 23 arrests for 2016.
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The national makeup of detained traffickers places Syrians first, followed by Poles, Germans, Iraqi’s, and Russians. Authorities have not revealed the number of actual convictions in any of the cases.
Despite the staggering number of arrests, rates of human trafficking has actually dropped from the record-breaking 2015, when all of Europe was overwhelmed by an all-out refugee and migration route crisis.
The German Federal Police detained 3,370 suspects in 2015, according to the German paper.
https://www.rt.com/news/373010-germany-human-traffickers-migrants/
