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Participación en un grupo delictivo organizado

Delitos

• Participación en las actividades delictivas de un grupo delictivo organizado

Tráfico ilícito de migrantes

Delitos

• Facilitación de la entrada ilegal
• Beneficio económico u otro beneficio de orden material (para los traficantes de migrantes)

(Servitenkloster Smuggling Case)

Resumen de los hechos

This case relates to a group of eight Afghan, Indian, and Pakistani men who were accused of smuggling 278 mostly Pakistani nationals into Austria between March and July 2013. The men were part of a group of asylum-seekers who sought refuge in Austria and protested against the Austrian Government's decision to refuse refugee status. They were then temporarily accommodated in the Servitenkloster, a monastery in Vienna's 9th district, when the accusations against them emerged, triggering great publicity of this case. The case went to court in March 2014, but was suspended after several hearing days. A decision in this case is expected for May 2014.

Austria's federal bureau of investigations, the Bundeskriminalamt, stated that the smuggled migrants had paid between EUR 6,500 and 10,000 to be brought from South and West Asia to Europe, generating a total sum of EUR 3 million from their smuggling activities, though the eight accused received only a small marhin of these profits.

Comentario y aspectos destacados

This case made significant headlines in Austria because the eight accused smugglers were pat of a group of asylum seekers whose applications for asylum in Austria were rejected and they then sought of refuge in the Votivkirche, a prominent church building in Vienna's inner city, which they occupied for several weeks. After lengthy negotiations, the asylum seekers, the eight men among them, were accommodated in several other facilities, including the Servitenkloster, a monastery in Vienna's 9th district. The eight men were staying here when the case came to light in July 2013.

Cuestiones transversales

Responsabilidad

Responsabilidad por

• Delito consumado

Responsabilidad implica

• Delincuentes principales

Delincuente/Delito

Detalles

• Participa en el grupo delictivo organizado (Articulo 2(a) CTOC)
• Ocurrió a través de uno (o más) de las fronteras internacionales (transnacional)

Investigación

Observaciones

The investigation involved telephone interceptions which also formed the main basis of the accusations against the eight accused in this case.

 

Información sobre el procedimiento

Sistema jurídico:
Derecho continental
 
Proceder #1:
  • Fase:
    primer proceso
  • Fecha de la Decisión:
    06 May 2014

    Tribunal

    Título de la Tribunal

    Landesgericht (Regional Court)

     

    Localidad

  • Ciudad/Pueblo:
    Wiener Neustadt
  • Provincia:
    Niederösterreich
  • • Penal

    Descripción

    The trial against the eight accused was suspended in late March 2014, and the men were released from remand, because the Judge expressed doubts over the evidence against the eight men. A decision in this case was expected for 6 May 2014.

     

    Migrantes

    Inmigrante:
    278 persons

    Acusado / Demandado de primera instancia

    Número de otros acusados :
    8
    Acusado:
    Unknown
    Sexo:
    Hombre

    The case involves eight male accused who come from Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan. The men denied accusations that they were involved in the smuggling migrants, saying they occasionally helped foreigners, some of whom came from the same towns as them, to find their way around Vienna.

    Cargos/Acusaciones/Decisiones

    Acusado:
    Unknown
    Ley:
    Fremdenpolizeigesetz (AUT)s 114 - Smuggling of Migrants [Schlepperei]

    Fuentes/Citas

    This entry was copied from The Migrant Smuggling Case Database, launched by the University of Queensland Migrant Smuggling Working Group in August 2013.