{"id":238368,"date":"2026-08-06T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238368\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:00:31","slug":"europol-detains-three-in-crackdown-on-syrian-migrant-smuggling-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/238368\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol detains three in crackdown on Syrian migrant-smuggling network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Three suspected members of Syrian migrant-smuggling networks have been arrested following a joint operation carried out in Germany and Serbia, Europol announced on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The arrests come as Europe continues to deal with the aftermath of last week&#8217;s migrant crisis, during which more than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europol-says-three-arrested-over-suspected-syrian-migrant-smuggling-network-2026-08-06\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Europol said investigators targeted senior members of two interconnected Syrian criminal networks believed to have organized the smuggling of more than 900 migrants into the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested include a 26-year-old Syrian national in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/german-police-find-explosive-laden-drone-at-leipzig-halle-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a>, a 31-year-old Syrian national in Belgrade, and another suspect in the Serbian capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to Europol, the networks have been involved in transporting migrants into Europe since 2022 through Mediterranean crossings from Libya and along the Balkan migration route.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three suspected members of Syrian migrant-smuggling networks have been arrested following a joint operation carried out in Germany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,40840,537,66720,3186,95],"class_list":["post-238368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-europe","tag-europol","tag-germany","tag-migrant-smuggling-network","tag-serbia","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117048457437117602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368","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=238368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}