Illegal migrants have been entering Europe illegally for several years via the Polish-Belarusian border or the so-called Balkan route. The agency recently disbanded a group involved in illegal transportation, in which Polish citizens played a key role: a mother and her 19-year-old son. According to investigators, foreigners paid them up to PLN 7,000 for transportation. euro. The group operates in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany and is international.
– The woman was mainly involved in recruiting courier drivers transporting illegal migrants from Southern Europe to Germany and Austria. His son helped him in the process, Szymon Mościcki, spokesman for the Silesian Border Guard Unit, told Rz.
Now they are both in Polish custody, brought from Germany under a European Arrest Warrant.
Prices vary. Typically, migrants pay smuggling organizers from PLN 2,500 to PLN 7,000 for the entire transportation. euro.
Members of criminal groups have clear tasks. Some of them provide information about places in Romania, Bulgaria or Croatia where there are many migrants who want to go to Western Europe, others deal with finding and arranging accommodation and means of transport, and still others are responsible for the transport of people.