France busts smuggling ring that brought 1,700 migrants to Europe

NAMPA / DPA
2025-03-21
Paris (dpa) - French investigators have dismantled a human trafficking network that is thought to have brought around 1,700 migrants from Africa to France, Germany and Northern Europe. Fifteen arrests have been made in France and Spain, prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said in Marseille on Friday. From Spain, the traffickers often brought the migrants across the border via small mountain roads and dropped them off in cities in southern France, Paris a......
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