The United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA) has claimed to have arrested a 29-year-old people smuggler they say has been a major figure in supplying boats to migrants crossing the English Channel illegally. The NCA say that they arrested 29-year-0ld
A Sudanese national has been sentenced to five years in prison by a French court after being found guilty of supplying boats to illegal immigrants looking to cross the English Channel from Northern France. Sudanese national Abdulnasser Abdulkarim was sentenced to
Three men were arrested, accused of being complicit in the deaths of 25 migrants who were allegedly thrown overboard from a smuggler boat.
Three Iraqi-Kurdish people-smugglers have been sentenced by a French court to between two and a half and five years for their roles in a large network operating in the English Channel.
An estimated two-thirds of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel suffer from hypothermia and other injuries sustained at sea.
Five suspects in a migrant smuggling ring have been charged for helping smuggle migrants around the Melilla city wall by sea.
A Spanish court has sentenced a pair of African national people traffickers to nine years in prison over the deaths of nine migrants.
Germany has joined France and the UK in an operation to tackle smuggling gangs behind the surge of migrant arrivals across the Channel.
A 49-year-old French national has been sentenced to four years in prison for driving migrants across the border from Spain into France and even trying to ram his vehicle into officers at the time of his arrest. The Bayonne Criminal
Italy has arrested four people smugglers, one of whom is said to be connected to the deaths of four migrants, including a woman.
At least 16 people died after a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea late Friday, bringing the three-day death toll to at least 30.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a sentence of at least 15 years for alleged people-trafficker Vo Van Hong, who is accused of being connected to the deaths of 39 people in a truck in southern England in 2019.
A 19-year-old Latvian national has been arrested in Latvia this week as part of an investigation into a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of two Syrian migrants in Austria in October.
The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) has confirmed reports that people-smugglers are now advertising crossings from Russia to Finland to migrants, as many abandon attempts to enter the European Union from Belarus in the face of strong border enforcement by Poland and the Baltic States.
CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration
The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.
Smuggling organizations this year have netted £58 Million for helping migrants cross the English Channel in boats from France.
Police in North Macedonia have arrested two Pakistani nationals and two Afghans suspected of trafficking and allegedly torturing migrants.
The trial of 24 NGO workers accused of aiding illegal migration, espionage, and people trafficking opened in Lesbos, Greece, on Thursday.
Greek authorities say seven migrants have been killed and eight others injured after the vehicle they were traveling in lost control.
Ten people were found dead at the bottom of an overcrowded wooden boat packed with 99 surviving migrants and refugees.
Foreign nationals including a German and two Swedes have been arrested for aiding attempts to enter Poland illegally as the country’s Belarus border crisis continues.
BERLIN (AP) — German federal police apprehended 23 migrants along the German-Polish border on Sunday morning and detained two suspected traffickers, German news agency dpa reported.
The Netherlands placed an Eritrean on the most-wanted list, intendingto prosecute for alleged involvement in large-scale human trafficking.
A French pro-migrant association known for organising large pro-migrant protests is allegedly on the radar of French intelligence.
Poland is following Hungary, Lithuania, and Greece in building a “wall” to stop a surge of predominantly African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian migrants, thought to have been orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime in neighbouring Belarus.
A French court has charged an Algerian with manslaughter after a 27-year-old Eritrean died trying to illegally cross the English Channel last week.
Greek police arrested three members of a people-trafficking ring on suspicion of supplying migrants with fake coronavirus documents intended to allow them to fly to other European countries.
French police have arrested a young Algerian man after a migrant died off the coast of Dunkirk during an attempt to cross the English Channel.
The authorities in Lithuania — a country of 2.8 million people where migration is virtually unprecedented — are being overwhelmed by African and Middle Eastern migrants entering via Belarus.
Two Pakistani nationals transporting a group of illegal immigrants were arrested by Greek police this week after a car chase in Thessaloniki.
At least 57 people have drowned off the coast of Libya after another boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, as people smugglers continue to operate in the area.
At least 17 migrants drowned and more than 300 were rescued by Tunisian and Libyan naval units in the Mediterranean.
Spain has arrested 18 people in a strike against a criminal network smuggling hundreds of Albanian illegal migrants into the United Kingdom and the United States.
In the first six months of this year, at least 1,146 people have drowned in the Mediterranean as people smugglers resume operations to help migrants illegally cross the sea to Europe.
A politician from the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) has been reported to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland for telling the Leader of the House of Commons he will “undoubtedly rot in hell”.
The number of crossings by boat across the English Channel has risen sharply despite the pandemic and pledges from the government to stop illegal aliens from making it to Britain’s shores.
A pregnant woman is among seven women who drowned off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa late Tuesday night.
An Iranian granted refugee status in Britain has been caught smuggling illegal aliens into the country hidden inside armchairs and couches.
A Turkish lorry driver has been charged, convicted, and imprisoned for trying to smuggle illegal migrants out of the United Kingdom.
