There is not a day when smugglers carrying illegal immigrants are not stopped in Austria. Only the drivers ever get caught. But who is behind these professionally organized smuggling trips? The trail leads to Russians with Arab roots, a courier arrested in Carinthia reveals.
For the bosses of the human traffickers, human lives don’t count for anything. Because their ‘passengers’ pay a lot of money to be taken to Central Europe and usually have to make the journey in appalling conditions, locked up and packed together. Young men whose families are in need are typically recruited as drivers for these transports. “The wages are good and my mother has problems,” said a 27-year-old during the trial at the Klagenfurt Regional Court. And in the end he says much more.
Source: Krone
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