Illegal migrants detained in Evros

    A foreign national was arrested and 16 illegal migrants were detained by police near the Ferres border crossing with Turkey in cooperation with FRONTEX officers at the Peplos region in Evros as the foreign national attempted to transport the migrants to another destination in Greece on Thursday.

    Police spotted the group of
16 illegal migrants in the Tycheros farming region and placed them under surveillance.

    After a 4-hour trek, the illegal migrants reached the town of Peplos, where two trucks were waiting for them.

    Police intervened, and arrested the driver, a foreign national, of one of the trucks, while the second driver evaded arrest and is wanted.

   

  

ANA-MPA