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About 10,000 Refugee Minors Disappear After Arriving in Europe

© AFP 2023 / Patrik StollarzYoung migrants wait for the arrival of the German President at an accommodation for refugees in Bergisch Gladbach, western Germany, on November 12, 2015.
Young migrants wait for the arrival of the German President at an accommodation for refugees in Bergisch Gladbach, western Germany, on November 12, 2015. - Sputnik International
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The EU law enforcement agency Europol's chief of staff said that about 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children disappeared following their arrival in Europe.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Europol, there are some 270,000 children among the refugees, who arrived in the European countries from the crisis-torn countries in 2015. Dozens of thousands of these minors were unaccompanied by adults and disappeared. Their fate sparked concerns in the 28-nation block as they could become victims of human traffickers.

"It’s not unreasonable to say that we’re looking at 10,000-plus children. Not all of them will be criminally exploited; some might have been passed on to family members. We just don’t know where they are, what they’re doing or whom they are with," Brian Donald told the Observer newspaper.

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He added that some 5,000 of refugee children disappeared in Italy and about 1,000 in Sweden.

The European Union is currently struggling to manage the massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving their countries of origin in the Middle East and North Africa for Europe. Over 1.83 million illegal border crossings have been detected by the EU border agency Frontex during 2015.

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