13 Turks charged with weapons trafficking in northern Greece

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Thirteen Turkish nationals were charged connected Saturday with trafficking firearms aft being arrested successful bluish Greece with 147 amerciable firearms, hundreds of bullets and different weapon parts, authorities said.

The radical – 7 men and six women – appeared earlier a section authoritative successful Alexandroupoli and were referred to a magistrate, from whom they received a proceeding day adjacent week. They stay successful custody pending further ineligible proceedings. 

Police said the suspects were apprehended successful the Soufli country of Evros, adjacent the Turkish border, pursuing an cognition by the Greek Police’s Organized Crime Directorate, which reportedly had anterior quality connected their movements. 

The firearms were allegedly carried successful bags aft the radical crossed into Greece via the Evros River. Authorities judge the weapons were intended for a transgression web operating some wrong and extracurricular Greece. 

The suspects told investigators they had been instructed to present the shipment to an idiosyncratic whose individuality they did not know.