https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Police in Lower Austria have busted an unscrupulous people-smuggling gang which raked in around €15m over the past decade by sending migrants to Vienna by boat, plane and overland - often in the most awful conditions. https://www.thelocal.at/20161219/austrian-police-crack-international-people-smuggling-gang Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:22:18 +0100 austrian-police-crack-international-people-smuggling-gang Taxi drivers and members of the public who picked up refugees who had made it across the Austrian border last summer and drove them to their destination cannot be prosecuted as people smugglers, Austria’s high court (OGH) has ruled. https://www.thelocal.at/20161007/taxi-drivers-who-transported-refugees-not-people-smugglers Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:45:57 +0200 taxi-drivers-who-transported-refugees-not-people-smugglers Four alleged people smugglers from Syria were arrested in Leopoldsdorf, Lower Austria on Monday night. https://www.thelocal.at/20140819/four-people-smugglers-from-syria-arrested Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:37:42 +0200 four-people-smugglers-from-syria-arrested