Asylum Seekers and Police

man: Police said a Syrian and an Iraqi man, age 26 and 32, were locked in a room for more than a week after traffickers brought them over a river dividing Turkey and Greece and drove them 350 kilometres 220 miles to the city, according to Brandon Sun. The smugglers claimed each man owed them 1,500 euros 1,570. Police in northern Greece say two asylum seekers who allegedly were held captive by traffickers for failing to pay transit fees have been freed.A Bulgarian man was arrested and held on abduction charges Thursday after police raided an apartment in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. Several major anti-trafficking operations have been centred on Thessaloniki, an hour's drive from the border with Macedonia, since several European countries closed their borders to refugees last year. 5 25 p.m. The call in Arabic and German by Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of Bild's online edition, followed the Berlin Christmas market attack in which a failed Tunisian asylum-seeker is the prime suspect and the detention of seven young men from Syria and Libya accused of trying to set a homeless man alight in a Berlin subway station. Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper is urging decent refugees to prevent violence by young migrants and report radicals to authorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.