Two people were arrested by the Italian border police on May 20 and 21 near Trieste for hiding ten Turkish citizens in a truck to carry them to Italy.

The arrests add to those of eight drivers and two passengers that took place mid-May: two Moldovans, two Romanians, two Ukrainians, two Pakistani, one Albanian, and one Kosovar, between the ages of 18-60.

Their vehicles, all of them with an EU license plate, were seized.

A total of 35 citizens were traveling with those arrested in mid-May, reportedly hailing from Turkey but also from Bangladesh, Eritrea, Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria.

The ages of the adult migrants went from 18 to 46, while the ages of minors spanned from just a few months old to 17.

Without valid documents

The two people arrested more recently were intercepted by agents while they were taking approximately ten Turkish citizens to Italy. The ages of these persons varied between 15 and 41 years old, all of them were without valid entry documents for the Schengen countries.

The Romanian citizen was arrested in the early hours of the afternoon on May 20, he was driving a truck with six clandestine passengers, among them a family with two small children, all headed to Germany.

Thousands of euros paid to criminal organization

The second driver, of Moldavian origin, was arrested on May 21 during controls carried out near the train station.

Further inquiries by the frontier police showed that his four passengers, among them one minor, had paid a couple of thousands of euros to a criminal organization in charge of planning their transfer from their country of origin to Italy.

The two suspected smugglers were put in the District house, a prison where people awaiting a court sentence are usually detained, and the two vehicles -- a truck with a German license plate and a vehicle with a Romanian plate -- were seized.