(Its about bloody time ! When greed becomes the norm ! -CDH)   Greece jails Palestinian over migrant smuggling

Associated PressFebruary 20, 2018
In this photo taken on Sunday Feb. 18, 2018 photo, refugees and migrants wait to be rescued by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after leaving Libya trying to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat, 60 miles north of Al-Khums, Libya. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on migrant issues in Europe (all times local):

4:15 p.m.

A Greek court in the northern city of Thessaloniki has convicted a Palestinian man of running a major migrant-smuggling ring and sentenced him to 13 years in prison.


Judges ruled Tuesday that 29-year-old Jamal Owda was active during the height of Europe's immigration crisis, from July 2014 to December 2015 — when he was arrested in Britain following a Greek request.

Migrants allegedly paid the ring 1,500 euros ($1,900) each to be taken from Greece to Serbia by road, at a time before Balkan countries closed their borders to check migratory flows. The traffickers' annual revenues exceeded 10 million euros ($12 million https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-greece-jails-palestinian-over-migrant-smuggling-151656124.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-greece-jails-palestinian-over-migrant-smuggling-151656124.html