During a conversation between Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and his Serbian counterpart Alexsandar Vulin in Vienna on Friday, the protection of the EU’s external borders was central. Because after Corona, the smuggling mafia is back. As the figures confirm, there were 15,999 asylum applications in the first four months, more than double the number of the previous year.
In return, more than 90 percent of decisions were legally negative. During the political summit, it was also announced that a wanted human trafficking boss, who earned nine million euros from the suffering of 2,000 refugees, has been arrested in Styria and is now being extradited to Serbia. “Illegal migration is currently the biggest security policy challenge,” said Home Secretary Karner.
In addition, Andreas Holzer, Director of the Federal Police Bureau, emphasized the partnership in the fight against organized crime, especially the arms and drug trade. “Every kilogram of narcotics removed from circulation in Belgrade is half a kilogram less in Vienna,” Vulin said – also referring to a current success against the drug trade, the details of which were explained by Andreas Holzer, head of the federal investigation.
Smuggling ‘worst form of organized crime’
However, according to Karner, the fight against smuggling networks and illegal migration is “central”. “We agreed that this is one of the worst forms of organized crime,” the interior minister referred to the earlier conversation with Vulin. “The migration crisis is not over yet, it is still there and it will get bigger and more important,” he warned, the numbers in Serbia would increase further.
Source: Krone
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