EU spent millions in « mechanized dogs » to look for hidden migrants
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/bugbrother/2019/05/05/eu-spent-millions-in-mechanized-dogs-to-look-for-hidden-migrants
« Dogs have proven to be the most effective methods to detect humans hidden in vehicles« , reports an European Commission document, but they are also quickly tired, and costs a lot. That’s why the EC gave €16M to dozens of public and private bodies in order to develop « mechanized dogs » and « artificial sniffers » to identify all those hidden migrants who try to cross the Schengen borders. An investigationwritten in june 2015 for The Migrants Files Project, but which had never been published (...)