The 41-year-old Albanian national arranged at least 31 crossings (Image: Mustaf Cunaj) A ‘prolific’ UK-based people smuggler who organised small boat crossings for children as young as five has been jailed for nine years. It comes the day after Prime Minister Rishi
A man has been jailed for 20 months after he smuggled more than 50 migrants across the English Channel in a “perilously overcrowded dinghy”. Choul Phan Maker, 31, from South Sudan, was jailed at Winchester Crown Court for unlawful arrival and assisting
The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in the shooting of a Syrian man by Greek coast guards during a pursuit of a migrant smuggling boat about a decade ago. The court ordered Greece to pay about $87,000 in damages
A Romanian human smuggler was sentenced to 12 years over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a truck trailer heading to the U.K. The migrants from Vietnam died after suffering in the hot cargo container where the
A pilot operating a small aircraft over a remote region of France dumped dozens of bags suspected of containing drugs after he was intercepted by a French fighter jet over the weekend. Authorities were alerted to the single-seater tourist plane after it
Sunak pledges to ‘break’ business model of people smugglers European leaders are turning a blind eye to tens of thousands of migrants destined for Britain, a career people smuggler has claimed. Iraqi Kurdish criminal, Ari, said Governments “use” the migration crisis as
A suspected Channel smuggler is reportedly in critical condition in a hospital after he was shot in his sleep at a migrant camp in northern France. The incident occurred at about 5.30 am on Tuesday. The injured man is believed to be