Despite the fires affecting Evros, the traffickers’ rings continue their activity. Only the last one 24 hours the competent prosecuting authorities arrested in three different cases equal numbers traffickers (two Greeks and one foreigner), because they were transporting illegal immigrants from the Evros to the hinterland.

In first casethe police of Drama arrested a Greek driver on a provincial road of the prefecture, because he was transporting with a truck 11 immigrants.

The arrest was incidental of the second Greek driver, near the settlement of Ardani in Evros, as in his attempt to avoid the police control, the I.X. developed speed consistently. his car to hit a road sign post and come to a standstill.

During the control that followed, police officers of the Border Guard Department of Feron, identified three foreigners inside the vehicle who did not have legal documents to stay in the Greek territory.

The third case was equally episodic of arrest – this time on the Egnatia Odos highway and in the section that connects the Gardens with Alexandroupoli.

Foreign driver I.X. The driver of a car illegally transporting eight migrants tried to escape by making dangerous maneuvers, but the vehicle hit a curb and stopped. His arrest was made by police officers of the Alexandroupolis Police Department with the assistance of Frontex officials, while it was established that the vehicle had been stolen in the previous 24 hours from the Attica area.