The truck with foreign license plates was stopped on the D8 (E55) motorway leading to Saxony near Nova Ves in the Melnik district, around 30 kilometers north of Prague. During the operation, the motorway was temporarily closed completely. According to the security forces, a helicopter was used to search for several migrants who had run away from the truck that had been stopped by the police. “All of the people were arrested,” the police later announced.
The police assume that the migrants were only transiting through the Czech Republic towards Western Europe. Where the people came from was not initially known.
The Czech Republic is an important transit country for migrants on their way to other European countries such as Germany. According to the Interior Ministry in Prague, almost 14,000 people without valid residence papers were apprehended in the country last year. This was a decrease of more than half compared to 2022.
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