There’s a Booming Black Market for Fake Syrian Passports
The terrorist who blew himself up outside the Stade de France had fingerprints matching that of a man who arrived on European shores Oct. 3 alongside desperate migrants who had crossed over from Turkey, according to French and Greek officials.
But the Syrian passport found near his body, which quickly sparked a political debate in Europe and the United States? It was a fake.
Fraudulent Syrian passports are nothing new on the migratory route from Turkey through Europe. Indeed, German officials this year estimated that nearly a third of asylum seekers falsely claimed they were Syrian.
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