People-smugglers arrested for using private jets to help illegals enter Europe

Source: Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 per passenger. Italian police announced the arrests of three men, two Egyptian citizens and an Italian citizen, earlier this week on Wednesday in Rome, while two other suspected smugglers, a Tunisian woman and another Egyptian man, were arrested by police in Brussels. Italian police chief Costantino Scudieri announced the arrests and added that two more suspects were still wanted by investigators, and that Belgian police managed to seize two private jets thought to be linked to the network’s operations, European Union-funded website InfoMigrants reports. Investigators say that the smuggling network gave the migrants fake diplomatic passports from the Caribbean state of Saint Kitts and Nevis, then posed as wealthy travellers whose private jets were just stopping in Europe o