People-smuggling crackdown sees 75 arrested across Europe
About 1,300 officers took part in Operation Baghdad in 10 countries, arresting two dozen in France, among them a “network boss”, and dozens more in Ireland, Germany, Greece, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Britain.
“All suspects are said to be involved in the clandestine smuggling of a large number of illegal immigrants into and within the European Union,” said a joint statement by Europol and Eurojust — a network of European judicial authorities.
