About 9,000 unaccompanied refugee children in Germany are officially missing. Among the 8,991 children, 867 aged 13 or younger were registered upon entering the country but authorities later lost track of them, reports Germany’s national investigative police agency, the Bundeskriminalamt. NGOs working on child protection have raised their concerns that these children are easy targets for organized trafficking gangs. The scale of German disappearances emerged after Europol stated unaccompanied child asylum-seekers were at risk from a “criminal infrastructure” in the EU.