On Saturday, German authorities intercepted a truck heading for Germany with 31 migrants from Iraq on board, including ten young children alongside two women, and arrested a Polish driver.
The driver is believed to belong to a group that smuggled migrants from Poland, largely using trucks and in some cases hiding them behind goods and pallets. The people arrested are all from Iraq.
According to the latest reports, when German officers opened the sliding door, they saw 31 people. They all have Iraqi nationality. Some of them were in bad shape. The children wore worn, damp shoes. Some were wounded in the feet.
The alleged smuggling took place since the beginning of 2017; migrants were largely being transported across the Balkans and then via the Czech Republic or Poland into Germany. The smugglers charged each migrant 8,000 euros (some $9,900).
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