Trieste, migrants sent from China to Italy to be exploited: 9 arrests.

La State Police of Trieste, under the direction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, recently completed a Judicial Police operation which allowed vanquish un Chinese crime syndicate dedicated to aiding irregular immigration through the so-called “Balkan route”.

The investigations were launched following the arrest of a Chinese citizen, carried out in April during the border controls along the Trieste border strip, since intercepted while it was transporting four illegal Chinese who had just entered national territory from Slovenia.

The subsequent investigative investigations made it possible to ascertain the existence of a consistent and continuous flow of irregular Chinese citizens who, in small groups, they were flown to the external borders of Europe in countries (mainly Serbia) where they entered visa-free and then, from there, they were accompanied by car, through Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, to the Italian state border.

Once in Italy, they were picked up by fellow countrymen who transported them by car to a sorting point: a real “safe house”, located in Cazzago di Pianiga (VE), where the illegal immigrants stopped for one or two days, and from where they were then picked up by other drivers who took them to their final destinations, mostly in Italy (Which Venice, Milano, Lawn etc..), but also in other European countries such as French e Spain.

During their stay in the safe house, the passports used during the trip were collected and then sent back to China. Which means that, from that moment on, the illegal immigrants became real ghosts, destined for severe exploitation until the debt incurred for the trip is repaid; relegated to laboratories, tailors, etc., without any possibility of a free or semi-free life, without medical assistance, with nothing except a bed and a place to work endlessly, until returning to China after a few years.

A sort of temporary slavery, voluntarily accepted, but still unacceptable for our legal system and for our ethics. The total number of irregular foreigners identified during the investigative activities amounts to seventy-seven, among which there are also many women and some minors, between 15 and 18 years old.

A total of nine Chinese citizens were arrested during the operation for aggravated aiding and abetting irregular immigration, of which eight were caught carrying out illegal transfers from the Italian-Slovenian border to their respective destinations and one was believed to be the main organizer of the criminal project.