The border police of Montenegro and Bosnia have prevented the smuggling of nine minors from Egypt and criminal charges have been filed against a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina on suspicion of human smuggling, it is reported. RFE.
On September 23rd, Montenegrin police announced that the operation was based on information received by border police officers in Pljevlja, a city in the north of the country near the borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
“Through operational work in the field, they became familiar with the route of movement of migrants, the place of illegal crossing of the state border, as well as information indicating the existence of organized human smuggling towards Bosnia and Herzegovina,” the Montenegrin police said in a statement.
Based on this information, the services of both countries organized an ambush.
A group of migrants crossed the route from Pljevlja to the Montenegrin-Bosnian border, and then, bypassing the official border crossing, illegally crossed into Bosnia and Herzegovina in the town of Kolibe and continued their movement.
Then, officers of the Bosnia and Herzegovina border police stopped and checked the Volkswagen Passat car, driven by S.K. from Tuzla.
After inspecting the vehicle, nine foreign nationals were found inside – underage migrants from Egypt, who had arrived on the territory of Pljevlja from the direction of Podgorica.
BiH border police officers, upon order of the state prosecutor, filed criminal charges against one person on suspicion of committing the crime of human smuggling.
The Montenegrin Police Department announced that it continues to exchange intelligence and cooperate with neighboring countries in order to dismantle smuggling networks.
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