Cold comfort The lucrative route from the Middle East to Minsk
Nov 19, 2021
3 minutes
By Lorenzo Tondo BIAŁYSTOK and Martin Chulov BEIRUT
n a dark forest road last month, Polish police were in pursuit of a speeding car that had skipped a check point. The car’s driver was a people smuggler, and his passengers three Syrians who had paid thousands for him to take them to Germany, the final leg of their journey from the Middle East via Belarus. A truck coming in the opposite direction tried to dodge them but could not. Ferhad Nabo, 33, a married father of two from Kobane, was
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