Sentences of up to 15 years in prison were handed down Tuesday in Lille against 18 members of a network “sprawling” of smugglers in the Channel, mainly Iraqi-Kurdish, described by the prosecution as “death merchants”. This network, suspected of having organized more than 10,000 clandestine crossings according to the British authorities, was according to the … Read more
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday called for increased international cooperation against migrant smuggling networks, which he said constitute “a threat to global security comparable to terrorism”. Some 31,094 migrants have arrived illegally in the United Kingdom since January by crossing the Channel on makeshift boats, more than in all of 2023. Coming to … Read more
On November 24, 2021, 27 migrants died in the Channel. In this drama, the Paris Court of Appeal recently ruled that the facts attributed to the alleged smugglers were “indissociable” of those who were criticized against the soldiers, accused of not having provided assistance. The boat sank in the early morning, taking the lives of … Read more
Of the “death merchants” suspected of having worked within one of the main migrant smuggling networks in the Channel: the prosecution on Tuesday in Lille requested sentences of up to fifteen years in prison against 18 people, mainly Iraqi-Kurdish . The prosecutor described at the start of her requisitions a “sprawling file”with international ramifications. Before … Read more
Purchase of boats in Turkey, storage of equipment in the Netherlands: 18 alleged members of a vast network of smugglers, suspected of having organized the passage of thousands of migrants to the United Kingdom, are on trial until October 11 in Lille. Suspected of having been the logisticians of clandestine crossings of the Channel between … Read more