Police forces have searched properties in four German states in a major raid against suspected members of a people-smuggling gang coordinated with Europol. Arrest warrants in the double-digit range were issued, a police spokesman in the western state of North Rhine Westphalia told dpa, without offering a specific number. Around 700 officers were deployed in the most populous German state alone, he said. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the operation on Wednesday morning in North Rhine Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein was aimed at executing several European arrest warrants. …