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Asylum-seekers forced into illegal travel

By Liz Fekete

1 October 1996

The FFM casts doubt on the prosecution of two Polish men accused of human trafficking after they assisted 20 Macedonians to cross the Polish-German border.

It points out that the families of guestworkers from the former-Yugoslavia legally residing in Germany are being forced into illegal travel as the fairly cheap and formerly legal travel route from the Balkans to the Polish town of Sczecin is being closed. But, if they resort to the 'commercialised assistance' of citizens of the transit countries and countrymen living along the route, they are labelled as being part of operations involving 'trafficking in human beings'.

Fortress Europe 45, July 1996

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