Five restaurant employees and a maintenance worker at Barcelona Airport have been arrested for helping migrants to irregularly enter and stay in the Schengen area by avoiding border controls at the airport. - Advertisement -According to the police, dozens of migrants could enter Spain illegally through this scheme, which intended to pass them off as authorised airport personnel, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports. These people knew they couldn’t get the documents they needed to legally enter Spain, like valid visas. The detainees offered the migrants airport employee cards they could use to pretend they were workers and leave the international transit area without going through any border checkpoints. Spokesperson of National Police in BarcelonaThe same reveals that the gang’s help was crucial for migrants as they even accompanied them along corridors where only airport workers were allowed.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 17, 2023 15:42 UTC