*This article never specifically mentions why this is a case of human trafficking and NOT smuggling. The journalist never specifies what actions qualified the crime as human trafficking and in doing so blurs the line between human trafficking and smuggling which are two fundamentally different actions.
From The Local:
September 25th, 2008
Three men have been charged for arranging to have 49 foreign citizens smuggled into Sweden.
The human trafficking victims were allegedly taken across the European continent through Denmark and then over the Öresund bridge to Skåne in southern Sweden.
The suspects are said to have cooperated with accomplices in France, according to charges filed on Thursday in Malmö District Court.
The victims who asked for help to enter Sweden each paid 10,000 kronor ($1,515) to the smugglers.
The men are charged with organizing and carrying out human trafficking.
Two other men were also charged with the latter crime.
According to the charges, the men are suspected of conducting their human trafficking operations in cooperation with several different groups, including with a man who has already been convicted in Denmark, as well as another man not included in the charges.
The charges cover seven separate instances of human trafficking which took place between February 13th and June 16th of this year.
One of the men is also charged with serious forgery crimes. At his home police found a USB-memory stick with digital images of Arabic-language identity papers bearing official stamps.
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I think you make a great point!
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Michael