Greek police detain Georgian citizen for transporting illegal migrants
The Georgian citizen is accused of resisting law enforcers, violating traffic rules and fraud. Photo: screenshot from video.
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The Greek police have detained a 36-year-old Georgian citizen for transporting 13 Afghan illegal migrants and was found to not be in possession of a driver’s license.
Local media report that the Afghan migrants did not have the necessary documents to stay in Greece legally.
The detainee was driving a car with a fake license plate at high speed and resisted police during arrest.
The Georgian citizen is accused of resisting law enforcers, violating traffic rules and fraud.
A Georgian citizen arrested for human trafficking has been found dead at a temporary detention centre in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on May 28.
Police in Cyprus have detained 17 Georgian citizens for illegally staying in the country.
Greek police have arrested a 40-year-old Georgian national who was caught driving a refrigerated truck with 41 migrants in the back, the Guardian reports.
Cyprus has added Georgia to the list of safe countries. Cyprus is now the 13th country in the EU/Schengen zone to put Georgia on the safe country list. Following this decision, Georgian asylum-seekers’ applications will be examined in an accelerated mode.
The Greek police have detained two Georgian citizens for house robberies and selling stolen items in Rethymno, a city in Greece.
A Georgian man sought by Greek police for robbery as well as possible murder in the country was arrested on Sunday, with information about a wider group led by the 36-year-old emerging in Greek media.