(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 19 - Italian and Albanian police on
Wednesday arrested 47 people, 25 in Albania and 22 in Italy, on
suspicion of smuggling migrants through the Balkans from Greece
into Europe.
Almost all the hundreds of migrants were landed on the Salento
coast in Puglia, police said.
Greek police helped in the operation, code-named Astrolabe.
The probe began in the middle of the first COVID-19 lockdown in
April 2020. (ANSA).
47 arrests in Albania-Italy migrant smuggling case
Gang landed hundreds on Salento coast say police