Alarm is growing over the increasing number of arrests of suspected smugglers caught trying to cross the Öresund bridge from Denmark with asylum seekers in their vehicles.

Only in September, Malmö police have arrested 45 people suspected of people smuggling, many of which claim they did it out of humanitarian reasons.

One of them is a 59-year-old German man who attempted to cross the border with a woman and her three children, all of them relatives of his nephew.

"He felt sorry for them and that's why he helped them to come here, but he made no profit from this, he never thought...