Occorned smuggling network broken: Process against boss in Dresden!

Occorned smuggling network broken: Process against boss in Dresden!

A dramatic cat-and-mouse game on Saxon streets! On July 25, 2023, a Renault Master raced through the night with Slovak license plates. What was behind it? An unscrupulous smuggler tried to escape the police. But the chase ended in Pirna. The driver from Spain, 35 years old, fled on foot, was seriously injured and left 17 Syrians, including a woman and a child, back in the vehicle - frightened and without papers.

Now it gets really explosive: thanks to the clever evaluation of the driver's cell phone data, German investigators were able to grasp a large fish! The supposed mastermind, Ismaeil A., a 46-year-old Syrian with Swedish citizenship, was caught in Copenhagen in May 2024 and is now in custody in Saxony. He is accused of organizing 62 Syrians and two Iraqis to Germany between March and July 2023. The accusation: a clever plan to cut a whopping 48,000 euros- How reports www.focus.de .

A big blow for the German judiciary, which otherwise often only had to be satisfied with small fish. The Dresden public prosecutor has already charged the "Schleuser König" and he threatens several years in prison. But that's not all - the investigators are hot on the trail of other backers. The fight against smuggling continues, with German investigators who are increasingly targeting the big players in the illegal business.