{"id":1874446,"date":"2026-04-09T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874446"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:30:23","slug":"eu-police-force-europol-smashes-ring-smuggling-people-from-vietnam-into-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874446","title":{"rendered":"EU police force Europol smashes ring smuggling people from Vietnam into Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/65\/17\/1200x675_cmsv2_4ded0313-f1c0-5a07-bcad-5dcdf77d6b4f-9716517.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2885039-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2885039\" data-cid=\"9716569\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2885039-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img 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Police arrested another high-level organiser in Hungary before the swoop at the end of last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese people entered the EU&#8217;s borderless Schengen Area in Hungary, with short-stay visas or residence permits, before travelling to France by air.<\/p>\n<p>Once in France, they were held for a time in Paris before being transported to northern France and handed to a Kurdish-Iraqi group that arranged the dangerous Channel crossing in small boats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/67\/64\/29\/808x539_cmsv2_f213b599-43a0-51bc-aa06-67b8eaaf99d6-9676429.jpg\" alt=\"The Europol headquarters in The Hague, 10 October, 2018\"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Europol headquarters in The Hague, 10 October, 2018<\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The members of this migrant smuggling network organised the entire journey, including logistics, accommodation and transport, relying on complicit drivers and facilitators,&#8221; <strong>Europol said in a statement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They said the network transported at least 15 migrants per month, charging them up to \u20ac22,000 for the full journey.<\/p>\n<p>The plight of Vietnamese migrants making the hazardous trip to Europe was highlighted when 39 people suffocated to death in a refrigerated container on their way to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the migrants, two of whom were just 15 years old, were discovered inside the sealed unit at a port near London in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Europol had announced a similar operation on 3 April targeting a different smuggling gang transporting Vietnamese migrants.<\/p>\n<p>That operation, which also took place on 30 March, resulted in 19 arrests, 16 in France and three in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-contributors c-article-contributors-supplementary u-margin-top-2 u-padding-top-2\">\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>                          Go to accessibility shortcuts<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"adb-article-you-might-also-like\" class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-you-might-also-like\">\n<h2 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