Three of seven inmates who escaped from a Greek prison were captured after crossing into Turkey by swimming across a river, Today’s Zaman, Turkish newspaper reported, and will be sent back to Greece.
The inmates got out through a window and jumped over a fences. Police identified the prisoners as three foreign nationals from Iraq and one each from Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. Six had been jailed for trafficking in illegal migrants and one for a drug-related offense.
Greek police handed out the identity information, photos and escape routes of the fugitives to the Edirne Police Department. The fugitives who were caught didn’t realize they were entering a restricted military zone and were immediately captured by Turkish border guards.
The report identified the captured fugitives as Algerian Ahmad Massoud, Egyptian Fahmy Alla al-Din and Iraqi Abdulkarim Marwan. They will be delivered to the Greek authorities as part of a 2001 re-admission agreement between Turkey and Greece.
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