Employees Coast guard Rhodes revealed 76 illegal migrantsand also arrested three of their carriers for participating in criminal organization.
According to data Coast guardin the evening on Sunday, after receiving information and conducting a coordinated operation, coastal employees Rhodes discovered in the sea district “Lahany” Suspicious yacht. Then the patrol boat, which was on a planned duty, went to this area, where he noticed a yacht moving at high speed towards the Turkish coast.
An attempt to stop it using light and sound signals followed, to which the yacht did not react, but made Dangerous maneuversto hide. As a result, the yacht was stopped by the boat Coast guardthree foreigners on board (Turkey citizens) aged 39, 44 and 45 years old Arrested.
At the same time, employees of the first port department of Lindos of the central port of Limen Rhodes And the police department Rhodes/TDM (Τοπικό διαμέρισμα μεταφορών, local department of transport) was found on the shore 76 migrants (29 men, 17 women and 30 minors).
According to migrants, they took the auxiliary ship on the coast of Turkey, which delivered them to the yacht. Then they went from the area Fethih In Turkey on Rhodesby paying for transportation about 5500 euros every.
During the preliminary investigation, a 39-year-old man was identified as a carrier of these migrants, the 45-year-old-as his assistant and operator of auxiliary vessel, who delivered migrants to the yacht, and the 44-year-old-as an assistant and coordinator during their transportation from Turkey to Greece.
Carriers arrested for violation of Article 25 of Law 5038/23 “Assistance”Article 83 of the Law 3386/05 “Illegal entry into the country” and Article 187 of the Criminal Code “Creation of a criminal organization”having a specific structure and characteristics that acted repeatedly with the aim of illegally transporting migrants from the coast Fethih In Turkey on Rhodes.
A preliminary investigation is conducted by the central port service Rhodesat the same time, the yacht transporting migrants and the inflatable auxiliary ship (tender), which was at the stern of the yacht, are confiscated.
This is perhaps the first case in recent years, when the police detained illegal migrants who arrived with the help of smugglers in Greece. Previously, they were placed in temporary shelters, and then sent to the mainland, where they placed either in hotels or in specially equipped camps.
Most likely, these are new trends that have come to Greece by Germany, which recently began introduce restrictions on the arrival of illegal migrants To the country.
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