Clanders dressed as cyclists on charity tours. The trick to crossing the border

Rome, 11 Dec – There is no limit to the creativity of illegal immigrants when it comes to finding ways to go beyond the borders and pouring into our house. The list of more or less ingenious findings is long and constantly punctuates the news: it goes, very banally from marches / hikes through the woods to pass the borders of Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia, to the Tunisians under the lie of French tourists traveling on buses to Zagreb; some daredevils have even done it seal inside a box of wood risking death by asphyxiation. The last invention adopted by immigrants to cross our borders, as reported The newspaper, it was pretending to be cyclists, on the move for charity reasons, even equipped with four beneficial t-shirts of one Lombard diocese that – who knows how – ended up wearing our braves from Eastern Europe. It would be very interesting to understand how the four managed to get them …

Benefactor cyclists

The story dates back to September 1, but the police only announced it now. The 4 illegal immigrants were arrested by police officers northwest of Osijek, in the eastern part of Croatia. It is about one Afghan and three Iranians that on board of as many mountain bikes they had crossed the border of Serbia and they were sold as "cyclists engaged in traveling for charity". In this regard, they wore the shirt with the logo of Bellastoria, a project of the Lombard dioceses busy on the front of the summer camps. However, the disguise did not deceive the eye of Croatian agents, who immediately discovered and stopped them.

Nine in the box

The news of nine immigrants locked up in a wooden box for the transport of machinery, aboard a van with Polish license plate. "The case was sealed with screws, but we heard the voices of people locked inside," an agent told a The newspaper. When the law enforcement officers removed the lid, seven Iranians have appeared – including two women with four minors – and two Iraqis.

Cristina Gauri