Four human traffickers arrested in Rhodope and Evros

Four human traffickers, three foreigners and one Greek, were arrested on Saturday in the northern regions of Rhodope and Evros.

Police from the Rhodope and Alexandroupolis departments made the arrests.

In the first case, a foreign trafficker was caught driving a stolen car in Rhodope with eleven illegal migrants inside. In the second case, another foreign trafficker was arrested on the Egnatia highway transporting five illegal migrants in a trailer with fake number plates. A third foreign trafficker was apprehended in Evros with seven illegal migrants. The fourth trafficker, a Greek national, was apprehended on the Ormenio-Ardani road with five illegal migrants in a stolen vehicle.

Among the items seized were the vehicles, small amounts of cannabis, a fake number plate and cell phones. The suspects, who had no driving license, will be charged as investigations...