Two Greek officers charged over shots in smuggling car chase

Two Greek police officers have been charged with attempted murder after they fired shots, during a high-speed chase, at a car driven by a smuggler that was crammed with 13 migrants — two of whom were slightly injured.

The two officers were released Wednesday pending the conclusion of the investigation after appearing before an investigating judge in the northeastern town of Orestiada, near Greece's land border with Turkey.

The frontier is a major illegal entry point for migrants seeking a better life in Europe, lately with the encouragement of Turkish authorities, which earlier this year threw open their borders with Greece to asylum-seekers and berated Athens for not letting them in.

A police statement said the two migrants — a man and a woman who had been shut in the trunk of the car — suffered flesh wounds from bullet fragments and were discharged from a...