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The federal police discovered a smuggling operation near Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut.

Symbolic image: Friso Gentsch/dpa

The federal police arrested six migrants from Turkey on Friday, August 23. A local resident called the officers to Neunkirchen bei Heiligen Blut at around 3:30 p.m. According to the police report, she observed seven people coming out of a forest on foot. They then got into a vehicle with Berlin license plates.

The federal police finally stopped the vehicle near Eschlkam. A total of eight people from Turkey were in it. The driver was a 38-year-old from Berlin. His passenger lives in Poland. Also in the car was a 39-year-old woman with her four children aged between seven and 17. There was also a 21-year-old woman. The two women and the children were unable to produce valid residence permits.

As it turned out, the 37-year-old passenger was the husband of the 39-year-old and the father of the four children. The 21-year-old is a relative of the family. The man had apparently traveled from Poland to his brother-in-law in Berlin on Wednesday. He had previously been informed by his family that they were near the German border.

The two men then drove together from Berlin towards Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut to pick up the family. The 37-year-old father got out near the border and picked up his family on foot in the Czech Republic. He led them across the border on foot into Germany, where his brother-in-law was waiting with his car.

The federal police investigation revealed that the two women and the children had probably been smuggled from Turkey to the Czech Republic in a truck. They were then dropped off in the border area.

The federal police are now investigating the two Turkish men for smuggling foreigners. After all of them applied for asylum, the officers referred them to the initial reception center for asylum seekers in Regensburg.