Project FIMATHU

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The FIMATHU project ( Facilitated Illegal Immigration Affecting Austria and Hungary ), the report of which was sometimes abbreviated as the “ Tractor Report”, was an Austro-Hungarian work analysis project of Europol ( AWF CHECKPOINT ) established in September 2011 and, according to its own statements, should be a “joint answer "the" significant increase in illegal immigration "prepared by it" [created] a tractor database that will help the investigators to match data and exchange information to more quickly and effectively to tug proceed ").

Emergence

According to a report by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior (“Organized Smuggler Crime 2011”), “[a] owing to the increase in illegally entered people, especially from the summer months”, “several bilateral meetings between the interior ministers of Austria and Hungary and Austria and Hungarian police delegations ”(ie the Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner , her Hungarian counterpart Sándor Pintér and Europol ), in which“ a five-point program between Austria and Hungary was established ”. The FIMATHU project should - as one point of this program - be implemented by the National Bureau of Investigations (Department for Illegal Migration in Budapest: NNI ) and the Austrian Federal Criminal Police Office ( Office 3.4 Human Trafficking and Smuggling ).

Result

As a result of the project, as Europol reported in December 2012, a total of 7249 illegal immigrants were apprehended and 891 smuggling cases were found in the two countries. Data from over 500 withdrawn cell phones were evaluated. As a result, ten other countries were interested in the way the project worked: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic; Germany, Poland; Romania, Serbia, Slovakeidie, Slovenia and Switzerland.

In 2016, Europol set up the European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC) to combat smuggling . A key part of the EMSC is the Joint Operational Team Mare (JOT MARE), which was founded in 2015 and deals with smuggling across the Mediterranean and the related illegal migration.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E.g. “ Tug routes are changing ”, in: Kurier-Online on August 11, 2013, accessed on August 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ See "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the association of Third Parties to Europol's AWFs" ( PDF on statewatch.org ), " Europol in the third generation " on heise.de and analysis files (AWF) articles at Datenschmutz.de : "CHECKPOINT should officially fight gangs of people smugglers."
  3. ↑ In addition to Austria and Hungary, the cooperation also includes Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (Source: " Suspected Migrant Smugglers Arrested in Kosovo ", in: balkaninsight.com , January 31, 2013, accessed August 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ "In September 2011 Austria and Hungary launched a joint response to the significant increase in illegal immigration into their countries by establishing Project FIMATHU." (Source: Europol article , accessed on August 11, 2013)
  5. ^ OTS notification 0207 , on December 13, 2012.
  6. ↑ See OTS message 0207 , December 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ See BMI page
  8. ↑ See “Annual Report on Organized Smuggling 2011”, p. 5. ( PDF )
  9. ↑ Europol supports successful cooperation between Austria and Hungary against illegal immigration. Europol, 13 December 2012, accessed on 27 January 2019 .
  10. ^ Europol launches the European Migrant Smuggling Center. Europol, February 22, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2019 .