Spain dismantles Algerian, Syrian people-smuggling network

Spanish police on Friday confirmed that they had broken up a people-smuggling ring that brought more than 1,000 Algerian and Syrian migrants to Spain before relocating them elsewhere in Europe.
Twenty-one people were arrested in the operation involving Europol in the
Madrid region, Andalusia and the Basque country.
Migrants paid up to $21,600 to be brought to Spain and housed there before their transfer to other parts of the continent, police said, according to reporting by AFP.