People smugglers

Despite thousands of boats bringing illegal migrants to Britain, the government only managed to charge 82 people smugglers last year.

At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on people smugglers pushing illegal migration, promising prison terms of up to 30 years.

An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.

NICOSIA, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Saturday ordered the detention for six days of a Syrian man suspected of illegally bringing 21 Syrian migrants to the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a boat.

A British couple was handed prison sentences for joining a migrant smuggling ring and bringing illegals to the UK hidden in couches.

Police found 43 migrants hidden in a van just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck.

Court sentenced six members of a people smuggling network operating in the English Channel to between two and five years in prison.

Gangs smuggling boat migrants across the English Channel may be linked to a Taliban military formation and pose a serious national security risk, according to Nigel Farage. 

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

Deaths of migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece surged in 2022 according to the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR. 

The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.

An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is ending a policy that allowed illegal immigrants to use the platform to seek people smugglers to ferry them across the U.S. border, admitting that much of the activity is tantamount to “human exploitation” and “overlaps” with human trafficking.

Border police dismantled a major trafficking network in the southern city of Perpignan, accused of smuggling over 200 migrants into France. 

Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.

A people smuggler allegedly bragged to an undercover journalist that he is in contact with migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean.

A Calais fisherman claims to have witnessed people smugglers pushing migrants into the waters of the English Channel.

Two people smugglers were arrested in Hungary on Monday after they shot at police with 21 asylum seekers crammed into their vehicle.

Greece’s coast guard says dozens of migrants have been rescued from a sailboat that issued a distress call after it began taking on water.

The boat migrant crisis in the English Channel has escalated to the point that up to two per cent of “the entire adult male population of Albania” have now landed in Britain, according to the top border official for crossings. 

The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.

Giorgia Meloni talked cutting taxes, combatting people smuggling, and introducing policies to benefit Italian families.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

The Greek coastguard has launched an investigation into the activity of NGO charities suspected of working with people smugglers in Turkey.

Over 200 migrants were arrested this week after Serbian authorities cleared a makeshift migrant camp along the Hungarian border. Traffic along the Balkan migration route continues to surge.

The coast guard said 15 bodies had been recovered near the eastern island of Lesbos after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.

An Albanian people smuggler nicknamed the “Golden Lion” is said to make a million a week profiting from migrants.

The number of illegal migrants arriving in the United Kingdom after crossing the English Channel by boat has now surpassed 30,000. The 30,000 threshold was broken on Thursday according to figures from the Home Office, the government department with broad

The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 (£8,770/$9,983) per passenger.

A report published this week by Save the Children has claimed that minor migrants travelling along the Balkan illegal immigration route have been subjected to “horrific” violence by people-smugglers, border police, and others.

German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe.