The EU’s border agency, Frontex, says smugglers are using a new route to get migrants into Europe by loading them onto cargo ships from Turkey to Italy.
“There is definitely a new route opening up,” a spokesperson at the Warsaw-based agency told this website on Monday (5 January).
Around 17 cargo vessels have been intercepted on the route since July.
Frontex says the large cargo ships, measuring around 100 metres in length, are often purchased from scrapyards and then set s...
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