Police detain 114, two smugglers after searching truck near border

Police in northern Greece yesterday detained 114 illegal immigrants and detained two suspected smugglers, both Romanians, after searching a truck that had crossed into Greece from Turkey. The immigrants, who included women and children, were from Pakistan, India, Iraq, Somalia and the Middle East. They had allegedly each paid 2,700 euros to the Romanians to be taken to Athens. Meanwhile Merchant Marine Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis ordered an inquiry into claims by a 14-year-old Afghan migrant that a Greek coast guard officer stabbed him in Patras where he had been due to board a ferry to Italy.
(10.11.07)   Kathimerini English Edition   ()
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