French police dismantled a new major irregular migration network linking Morocco to Europe, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
“We started from an irregular migrant arrested in Corsica, then pulling the thread we came across a network with an operating mode that has never been discovered,” a police source told Le Monde.
After interviewing the Moroccan nationals at the head of the operation, investigators discovered that migrants would have real Chinese or Thai visas stamped on their passports for EUR8,000 in cash.
They would then take a flight to China or Thailand, stopping at the Frankfurt stopover in Germany, where they would apply for asylum, Le Monde’s sources said.
In eighteen months, investigators found that 195 irregular migrants transited from Morocco to Frankfurt using this mode. Once they leave the German detention center, they choose France, Italy, or Spain as destinations.
In France, some irregular migrants obtained residence permits for 8,000 euros thanks to contacts network in the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne, Le Monde’s source added.
The European Border Control Agency, Frontex, placed Morocco in third place in terms of irregular migration to Europe, recording almost 123,660 irregular migrants who arrived at the 27 member bloc in 2019.
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