Syrian smugglers charged in Hungary
Five Syrian men have been charged with trafficking migrants as part of a criminal organisation, a district prosecutor’s office in southern Hungary said on Wednesday.
The suspects are accused of smuggling more than 60 migrants, who crossed the Serbian-Hungarian and Croatian-Hungarian borders illegally to western Europe, as members of an organised criminal group over the past two years, with Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden as final destinations.
A Syrian man suspected of having set up the criminal group had a residence permit in Germany, while the other suspects had residence permits in other western European countries.
Before reaching the Hungarian-Austrian border, the suspects told the migrants to cross the border on foot, and then they all met up at a pre-arranged location in Austria for their onward bound journey.
The organiser provided the migrants with mobile phones and sim cards, while the suspects regularly changed their phones to avoid detection by the authorities.
The migrants paid for the illegal services using Hawala via a person known to the organiser. One of the suspects used a fake Greek driving licence as well as a rented car with fake registration documents for which forgery charges also apply.
The prosecutor’s office in Baja is seeking prison sentences without parole for the accused.
After serving their sentences, the suspects would be expelled from the country.
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Source: MTI
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The prison sentences for these individuals – IF CONVICTED – should be proportionate to the number of ILLEGAL MIGRANTS they collectively smuggled into Western Europe.
My suggestion is THREE YEARS WITHOUT PAROLE (for each transported ‘illegal’) per ‘convictee’.
That MIGHT just end such disgraceful behaviour from these parasitic individuals.
Not before time ….
WHAT, ME WORRY ?
My previous comment on this issue was NOT published by “DAILY NEWS HUNGARY” so maybe it IS true that D.N.H. has been ‘taken over’ by leftists.
Anyway, here we go again ….
It seems that ILLEGAL MUSLIM MIGRANTS believe they have a right to enter (Western) Europe where the only career-path open to such uneducated locusts is one of crime.
What better way to ‘earn a living’ than aid the ‘invasion’ of (Western) Europe by even more hordes of ravaging insects like themselves ?
When they are caught, the usual defence is : “BUT I AM FROM SYRIA !”
“Tough titties”, as the Bagwan’s mistress stated.
In an ideal world, these criminal offenders would be jailed for decades (with hard labour) but TEN YEARS for each of the smugglers would probably suffice – and certainly ‘send a message’ to other such parasites.
WHAT, ME WORRY ?
Please don’t invent huge theories, Daily News Hungary allows comments, sometimes it happens in minutes, sometimes after hours. Please calm down 🙂
Show trials like in the 1950s …. back in those days Jews and “Titoists” were the victims of absurd accusations, today Moslems and migrants are. The idea is the same, an illiberal regime needs to fabricate enemies to satisfy the masses and divert the attention from elsewhere.
Prosecutions of ‘people smugglers’ are NOT ‘show trials’, as claimed by our dear friend Mario.
These nefarious parasites are very lucky to ONLY face imprisonment – not the death penalty, as was the case with 1950’s ‘justice’.
By the way, eternal ‘faeces-stirrers’ like Mario would have forfeited his (useless) life back then !