Transit Fees: Police and Man

transit fees: A Bulgarian man was arrested and held on abduction charges Thursday after police raided an apartment in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, according to The Chronicle Herald. 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. Police in northern Greece say two asylum seekers who allegedly were held captive by traffickers for failing to pay transit fees have been freed. The smugglers claimed each man owed them 1,500 euros 1,570. Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper is urging decent refugees to prevent violence by young migrants and report radicals to authorities. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.