Illegal migrants eye charter flights

Faced with tighter police controls at Greece’s western ports of Patras and Igoumenitsa, human traffickers are increasingly using smaller airports across the country to smuggle illegal migrants into Western Europe, Kathimerini understands. Hundreds of unregistered migrants have been collared at airports on Santorini, Myconos, Samos and Mytilene in recent months while trying to travel to major cities in Western Europe using fake documents, according to police. Suspects usually prefer direct charter flights that do not involve stopovers at the bigger, more secure airports across the European Union.
(11.08.2012) Kathimerini English Edition
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