{"id":238256,"date":"2026-08-06T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238256\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:30:07","slug":"europol-says-three-arrested-over-suspected-syrian-migrant-smuggling-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238256\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol Says Three Arrested Over Suspected Syrian Migrant-Smuggling Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060European \u2060police arrested three \u2060suspected members of Syrian \u200bsmuggling networks after an operation spanning \u200cGermany and Serbia, \u200cEuropol said on \u2060Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060arrests come as Europe grapples with the aftermath \u200bof last week&#8217;s crisis when more than 70,000 migrants surged \u200binto the Spanish North African enclave \u2060of \u2060Ceuta from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators \u2060targeted \u200bsenior members of two interconnected Syrian criminal \u200bnetworks \u2060believed to have organised the smuggling of more than 900 migrants into the European \u2060Union,&#8221; the pan-European police body said in \u2060a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested included a 26-year-old Syrian in Germany and a 31-year-old Syrian in Belgrade, along with another suspect in the Serbian capital.<\/p>\n<p>The networks are accused of moving \u2060migrants into Europe since 2022 via Mediterranean crossings from Libya and along the Balkan route.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200bby Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing \u200bby Ros Russell)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See: August 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786012207_140_august-04-pyss-z02.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - Members of the Spanish Army's 'Regulares' infantry forces watch a group of migrants near the border post of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on August 2, 2026. At least 72 people died during last week's mass influx of migrants into Spain's Ceuta enclave, when tens of thousands of people mostly swam around the border post from Morocco, local officials said today. Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain's north African territory have returned to Morocco since the territory's largest mass migrant crossing. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS \/ AFP via Getty Images)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, Aug 6 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060European \u2060police arrested three \u2060suspected members of Syrian \u200bsmuggling networks after an operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[3496,1393,1105,54,1092,537,4164,49,351,3186,1218,95,82],"class_list":["post-238256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-africa","tag-collections-world","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-libya","tag-middle-east","tag-reuters","tag-serbia","tag-spain","tag-syria","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117048103986242452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}