Police were yesterday called in to probe a group of 12 Maltese tourists who were suspected to be “illegal immigrants” roaming in a Polish village.
The newspaper Gazeta Wrocławska reported that a resident of a village in Jelenia Góra called the police when he noticed a group of people in a van driving in the area.
The police were sent to the site but established that the group were not migrants but Maltese tourists who rented the van to visit Jelenia Góra. They described the resident's reaction as exaggerated.
Eastern and Central Europe is currently in the midst of a refugee crisis of people fleeing Syria and Iraq.