The days of teenage smugglers are past, the Lithuanian Border Guard Service insists.

Lithuania’s Boy Smugglers Go Back to Class

by Linas Jegelevicius

The numbers say that fewer children are skipping school to help with the illegal trade.

Just a couple of years ago, it was not unusual for groups of boys at the high school in Lumpenai, a few kilometers from the Lithuanian-Russian border, to run out of class as the teacher looked on helplessly.
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