Smuggler arrested with 11 migrants squashed into his car

This undated handout photograph provided by the Hellenic Police shows the αυτοκίνητο successful which a suspected smuiggler had squashed 11 migrants when helium was arrested Monday, April 20, 2026. [Handout/Hellenic Police]

A antheral caught driving a αυτοκίνητο with 11 passengers squeezed into it adjacent Greece’s northeastern onshore borderline with Turkey has been arrested and charged with migrant-smuggling, authorities said Tuesday.

A constabulary statement said the vehicle was stopped Monday greeting successful the Rodopi area, and it is believed to person been heading west towards Thessaloniki. Also Monday, a antheral was arrested successful the Evros portion with three migrants successful his car.

Both vehicles were confiscated.

The onshore borderline that mostly follows the people of the Evros stream is simply a little fashionable crossing constituent than Crete and the eastbound Aegean Sea islands, and has been mostly secured by a fence. 

Nevertheless, some 1,800 radical person illegally entered Greece that way so acold this year, according to United Nations data. Most want to caput connected to Europe’s prosperous heartland.