Post by Red Rackham on Dec 27, 2023 8:36:08 GMT
Illegal Migrant crisis: Insider lays bare immense scale of people smuggling operation
We met Curtis on the edge of woodland near the French port of Dunkirk. It's less than 100 meters from one of several migrant camps in the area. I'd been trying to persuade him to speak to us for some time. He is a key contact, with intimate knowledge of people smuggling operations within Northern France. But it's difficult to tell you any more about what he does, for fear of exposing him, and putting him at risk. He's able to provide us with valuable insight into the way in which the criminal people smuggling gangs operate, and the ongoing efforts of UK and French law enforcement to combat them.
And from his very first answer, a sobering assessment of the organised criminals behind this multi-million-pound illegal trade. Curtis says it would be easy, but wrong to imagine them as being based out there in France, running their operation from the camps. "This operation is run from the UK." He said. "It's not run from Turkey, or Iran, or Iraq. The main criminal operation is run from the UK, using go-betweens out in Iran, Iraq and various other countries. "There are lots of different routes into Europe and across to the UK, depending on how much a person can afford.
www.gbnews.com/membership/migrant-crisis-people-smuggling-operation
But I thought they were refugees?..
We met Curtis on the edge of woodland near the French port of Dunkirk. It's less than 100 meters from one of several migrant camps in the area. I'd been trying to persuade him to speak to us for some time. He is a key contact, with intimate knowledge of people smuggling operations within Northern France. But it's difficult to tell you any more about what he does, for fear of exposing him, and putting him at risk. He's able to provide us with valuable insight into the way in which the criminal people smuggling gangs operate, and the ongoing efforts of UK and French law enforcement to combat them.
And from his very first answer, a sobering assessment of the organised criminals behind this multi-million-pound illegal trade. Curtis says it would be easy, but wrong to imagine them as being based out there in France, running their operation from the camps. "This operation is run from the UK." He said. "It's not run from Turkey, or Iran, or Iraq. The main criminal operation is run from the UK, using go-betweens out in Iran, Iraq and various other countries. "There are lots of different routes into Europe and across to the UK, depending on how much a person can afford.
www.gbnews.com/membership/migrant-crisis-people-smuggling-operation
But I thought they were refugees?..