{"id":30011,"date":"2022-01-23T11:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30011"},"modified":"2022-01-23T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T10:57:34","slug":"3-arrested-for-holding-hostage-30-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/3-arrested-for-holding-hostage-30-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested for holding hostage 30 migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tirana Police arrested three people for allegedly holding 30 migrants confined against their will.<\/p>\n<p>M.K, a 40-year-old living in Tirana, M.E from Libya, and Z.D from Morocco held 30 migrants from the Middle East hostage threatening to have their families pay a ransom for their transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement authorities discovered around 30 people with various nationalities, mainly from the Middle East, at the house of M.K. They were not allowed to go out and were taken away their communication means and threatened their families to pay a ransom in order to transport these people in our country\u201d, the police statement read.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal proceeding was launched for 14 foreign nationals for the illegal border crossing of a state border.<\/p>\n<p>According to official data, some 19,000 migrants were caught in Albania in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, only 66 were granted asylum,\u00a0 whereas the rest were processed for deportation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/20\/19-000-illegal-emigrants-caught-trying-to-cross-the-border-in-albania-in-2021\/\">19,000 illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the border in 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/12\/16\/over-55000-migrants-tried-to-cross-into-the-eu-via-the-western-balkans-route\/\">Over 55,000 migrants tried to cross into the EU via Western Balkans route<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/12\/08\/syrian-migrant-found-dead-at-morava-mountain\/\">Syrian migrant found dead at Morava Mountain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu26920\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tirana Police arrested three people for allegedly holding 30 migrants confined against their will. M.K, a 40-year-old living in Tirana, M.E from Libya, and Z.D from Morocco held 30 migrants from the Middle East hostage threatening to have their families pay a ransom for their transport. \u201cLaw enforcement authorities discovered around 30 people with various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30012,"comment_status":"open","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>3 arrested for holding hostage 30 migrants - 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\/3-arrested-for-holding-hostage-30-migrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 arrested for holding hostage 30 migrants - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tirana Police arrested three people for allegedly holding 30 migrants confined against their will. 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