Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point. DW Urdu. May 14, 2024) According to reports received from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the country's security officials said that Barzan Majeed, popularly known as 'Scorpion', was killed on Monday, May 13. Detained in the Sulaymaniyah region of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
Five people, including a child, died while trying to enter Britain from France
Iraqi security officials said that the European Union officials had been looking for this suspect who smuggled people in Europe for a long time.
He was arrested as a result of the exchange of secret information with the international police Interpol and after his detention he has been handed over to the Iraqi Kurdistan Department of Justice.
Britain announced the arrest of Barzan Majeed
The arrest of Barzan Majeed, who is most wanted by European countries and one of the world's most notorious human traffickers, was announced by the National Crime Agency in a post on social media platform X. .
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The same British crime agency requested Interpol's help in arresting Barzan Majeed two years ago. This was done in 2022, when the accused was convicted and sentenced to a long prison term in absentia by a Belgian court.
Then the charges of human trafficking in Europe against Barzan Majeed were proved. The investigation in this regard was jointly conducted by the national investigative agencies of Great Britain and Belgium.
Human trafficking in Europe by trucks and small boats
In the UK alone, there are allegations against this suspect that he tried to smuggle at least 100 migrants into the UK by hiding them in trucks, by land or in small boats, via the English Channel.
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There has been a marked increase in the number of migrants arriving in the UK in recent years after making the perilous journey across the strait to England in small boats. In the same way, the arrival of immigrants has increased greatly in the member countries of the European Union after the dangerous journey of the Mediterranean Sea by land routes or by very unsafe boats.
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In total, these millions of migrants are mostly non-Europeans, who try to reach EU member states or the UK illegally with the help of human-trafficking criminal groups. Their goal is either to escape security threats due to bloody conflicts in their home countries or they move to Europe for a better economic future.
Such migrants pay human traffickers thousands of dollars each to somehow manage to enter the UK or EU borders.
