Mikulov, South Morabia, Dec 2 (CTK) – A Czech foreigner police patrol found a group of six migrants and a smuggler this week and they were returned to Austria, spokeswoman Stepanka Komarova said on a police web page Friday.
The patrol uncovered the foreigners in a check of cars at a former border crossing on Tuesday evening.
The car was driven by a 25-year-old Romanian man and five other people were riding with him. The police found another person in the boot.
“The men aged 17 to 21 did not have any valid documents. One of them carried a document issued on the name of a citizen of Iraq,” Komarova said.
The police later found out that the men come from Iraq and Iran. One of them was checked in Austria on the previous day and the Austrian authorities ordered him to leave the country.
Komarova said the foreigners were detained based on an agreement on the transfer of citizens to Austria.
The district court in Breclav made a decision on the expulsion of the 25-year-old man for three years for organising and unauthorised crossing the state border.
The detention of a group of more foreigners is rather exceptional after last year’s migrant wave.
South Moravia police chief Leos Trzil said only individuals are detained weekly.
The police detained a larger group of 13 migrants at the Breclav railway station at the end of June.
The largest group this year was detained in South Moravia, when customs officers stopped a lorry with Polish number plates on D2 motorway.
Seventeen people from Iraq were found in the van.
The police detained 1984 refugees in South Moravia in the full last year. In the first half of this year only 200 people were detained.
