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Five citizens from Romania, Sweden and Syria, specialised in migrant trafficking were detained for 24 hours by the border police officers, being accused of luring young, African-Asian people in order to smuggle them across border from Serbia to Romania, General Inspectorate of Border Police (IGPF) informs in a press release sent to AGERPRES on Wednesday.
The statements of the people involved showed that the traffickers requested from each migrant amounts ranging between 100 and 200 euro in order to help them fraudulently cross the border, the communication between traffickers and migrants being conducted through messages on online communication platforms.
"During 12.12.2017, following a police action organised in view of combating illegal migration and cross-border crimes in Timisoara municipality area, three Romanian citizens, aged between 21 and 24, one 40-year-old Swedish citizen and one 24-year-old Syrian citizen were taken into custody.
