Photo: Andreas Hillergren/TT, P4 Malmöhus

Lyssna: "This is an absurd idea"

Swedish taxi drivers who carry refugees from Denmark to Sweden across the Öresund bridge risk being charged with people smuggling.

Taxi drivers are currently exempt from the so-called carrier's liability, which enable states to impose fines on private transport companies if they allow people without the necessary visas or travel documents to enter the EU, and police fear that refugees may take advantage of this loophole to bypass the ID checks and enter the country illegally.

Ever since the ID controls, that force train, bus and rail operators to check the...