Suspected migrant smuggler had squeezed a dozen people into one car

[Handout/Hellenic Police]

Authorities successful northeastern Greece person arrested a suspected subordinate of an organized smuggling pack who was driving a αυτοκίνητο with 11 migrants squashed into it, constabulary said Wednesday.

A constabulary statement said the suspect was detained Tuesday adjacent the Greek-Turkish borderline successful the Orestiada region. He was lone identified arsenic a overseas national. The αυτοκίνητο was confiscated and the suspect faced charges of breaking migration laws.

Although Greece has drastically reduced crossings of the onshore borderline with Turkey, which is mostly demarcated by the Evros river, by gathering a agelong fence, astir 1,700 radical person made it crossed so acold this year according to United Nations data.

Most are picked up by cars adjacent the borderline and ferried west to Thessaloniki from which they proceed to different parts of Greece oregon northbound done the Balkans.