{"id":19581,"date":"2021-09-05T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T11:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19581"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T11:53:16","slug":"korca-police-arrest-40-year-old-carrying-68-illegal-emigrants-in-truck-heading-to-tirana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/korca-police-arrest-40-year-old-carrying-68-illegal-emigrants-in-truck-heading-to-tirana\/","title":{"rendered":"Korca Police arrest 40-year-old carrying 68 illegal emigrants in truck heading to Tirana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korca Police officers have arrested a 40-year-old, who was trying to drive 68 illegal refugees to Tirana and then into the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Euronews Albania report that E.K, a resident of Gjirokaster was stopped by the police during a random patrol in the axis Pogradec-Qafe Thane.<\/p>\n<p>He was driving a \u2018Mercedes Benz\u2019 truck that was carrying 68 passengers, illegal emigrants, who had offered to pay him 150 euros each, under the pretense that they would be taken into the EU.<\/p>\n<p>When he was stopped by the officers of the police, E.K had tried to bribe them with 1.000 ALL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/19\/first-group-of-afghan-refugees-arriving-in-albania-to-be-housed-in-berat\/\">First group of Afghan refugees arriving in Albania to be housed in Berat<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/18\/1200-beds-ready-afghan-refugees-will-only-stay-2-3-weeks-at-the-university-dorms\/\">1.200 beds to accommodate Afghan refugees, staying 2-3 weeks at the Student Dorms<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a title=\"Rama: We didn\u2019t just shelter the Afghans because the US asked\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/18\/rama-we-didnt-just-shelter-the-afghans-because-the-us-asked\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rama: We didn\u2019t just shelter the Afghans because the US asked<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korca Police officers have arrested a 40-year-old, who was trying to drive 68 illegal refugees to Tirana and then into the EU. Sources close to Euronews Albania report that E.K, a resident of Gjirokaster was stopped by the police during a random patrol in the axis Pogradec-Qafe Thane. He was driving a \u2018Mercedes Benz\u2019 truck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":19582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Korca Police arrest 40-year-old carrying 68 illegal emigrants in truck heading to Tirana - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/korca-police-arrest-40-year-old-carrying-68-illegal-emigrants-in-truck-heading-to-tirana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Korca Police arrest 40-year-old carrying 68 illegal emigrants in truck heading to Tirana - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Korca Police officers have arrested a 40-year-old, who was trying to drive 68 illegal refugees to Tirana and then into the EU. 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