![]() The operation began at dawn Wednesday in Italy when some 200 officers fanned out in various cities, including other major points on the smugglers’ land routes, the cities of Milan and Turin. Police said colleagues in Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Britain and Morocco collaborated in the investigation that led to the arrests. Transit points included Ventimiglia, an Italian city near its border with France and Trieste, in eastern Italy near Slovenia. “For example, departing from Syria and going to Oslo (Norway), or wherever they wanted to go.”ĭepending on how much the migrants could pay - investigators said some paid as much as 15,000 euros ($16,500) apiece just for the sea leg of the voyage, although the going rate appeared to be 10,000 euros - the passengers on the land routes to northern Europe either took trucks, trains or taxis across Italy’s northern land borders. “For the first time we succeeded in demonstrating all the passages, all the steps, of the migrant, depending on the passenger’s origin and desired destination,” Gratteri told reporters. In Calabria, Catanzaro Chief Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri described the investigation as groundbreaking in terms of understanding how a series of smuggling gangs work together, from point of origin to point of destination for the migrants, as well as in following the trail of the laundered revenues - profits off people’s misery and desperation. The nearly four-year-long investigation was spearheaded by prosecutors in Calabria, the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, where many of these migrants arrive from Turkey or Greece, often on well-outfitted sailboats that elude detection by police or military personnel. Select a scanned or photographed image on your computer or phone, click OK button at the bottom of page, wait a few seconds and then you can open or download. ![]() Copy text from images using online OCR and save the converted text as a TXT, DOC, or PDF. ROME (AP) - Italian police on Wednesday arrested 29 suspected smugglers as they smashed a transnational operation that for years brought migrants illegally into Italy by sea and then moved them overland into northern Europe, authorities said. Image to text converter allows you to extract text from images.
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