Police deport smugglers and impose entry ban

The federal police have caught three smugglers of refugees red-handed in the district of Görlitz. The two men from Ukraine and an Uzbek were deported to Poland and banned from entering the country for four years, the Ludwigsdorf federal police station announced Monday. A 29-year-old Ukrainian and the Uzbek man of the same age were provisionally detained over the weekend. They had independently brought two families from Turkey to Germany.

Already on Friday, a 49-year-old Ukrainian had gone into the net of the officials, who wanted to smuggle five Syrians over the Neisse Bridge in Görlitz. On Saturday and Sunday, the Ludwigsdorf federal police station apprehended a total of 92 fugitives in its area, mainly Syrians, Turks and Afghans.