Two members of a human trafficking ring, who were holding two undocumented foreign nationals in an apartment, were arrested in Thessaloniki.
Specifically, yesterday morning, police officers, responding to a report of a robbery in the city center, located the two suspects, who attempted to flee on foot, but were stopped and arrested.
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At that location, two foreign nationals were found without travel documents; according to their statements, had been held by the aforementioned perpetrators in an apartment in the city center at gunpoint, and their cell phones had been taken from them, but they managed to escape while being transported to another apartment.
As revealed by the police investigation, the foreign nationals being transported had entered Greek territory illegally at a point along the Greek-Turkish border, paying the sum of 3,000 euros to a member of the smuggling ring, where they were picked up by the arrested individuals, who demanded an additional 3,000 euros to release them.
The suspects will be brought before the competent prosecutor.
Source: APE-MPE
