Serbia: Police Arrest Migrant Smugglers, Retrieve Firearms, Money

Serbian Special Police on Wednesday raided a camp near the border with Hungary where they found 200 migrants, detained people smugglers and confiscated weapons and money.

The Police said in a statement that some of those found in the camp were transferred to state-run facilities, while some have been taken before the prosecutors to face legal proceedings for the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs, and for committing violent acts.

Police also said they found three handguns, an automatic rifle, knives, machetes and money.

The country’s Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said; "Serbia has not been and never will be an area where criminals and scum come and stay, who traffic in people and make money on their hardship and sorrow.”

The operation in Srpski Krstur by the Tisa river comes just two days after Serbia, Hungary and Austria agreed to take joint action to curb an increased influx of migrants into their countries and further into Europe.