Closed Balkan route means lucrative times for human traffickers

With the easy way closed, the refugees and immigrants are turning to human traffickers. -Vasilis Chronopoulos 

Smugglers are currently offering to take people a short distance to the Hungarian or Croatian border, a service that costs between 200 and 300 euros ($214-321). They’ve also got wire cutters for the Hungarian border fence. Hundreds of people a day try to leave Serbia in this way, desperate to make it onto EU soil. Most of them are immediately picked up by police. Many are robbed, humiliated or beaten before being sent back to Serbia, according to the dozens of refugees DW reporters have spoken with in recent days.

Read more DW

Image courtesy of DW