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.
A sailboat carrying migrants hit rocks off the coast of southern Greece and sank on Friday, leading to the deaths of at least seven people.
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.
A French government official has accused the UK of operating an economic model in which illegal migrants are entered into “modern slavery”.
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.
Five foreign nationals running a London-based migrant-smuggling network have been convicted for facilitating the illegal entry of 69 Albanians, who were later all released from charges on a technicality, in November 2020.
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.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.
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.
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.
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”.
A pregnant woman is among seven women who drowned off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa late Tuesday night.
Swedish police have arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of being paid to smuggle a child into the country.
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.
BERLIN (AP) — Two suspects were arrested in Germany and Slovakia in raids Monday on a group accused of smuggling Vietnamese into Germany and other European countries for large fees that they had to work off in massage parlors, brothels and other places, authorities said.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that the illegal immigration crisis at the United States’ southern border has turned into a “real emergency” that could spell political disaster for the Democrats following a trip to the Mexican frontier in Arizona.
Criminal people-smugglers in Calais have gloated that the British government’s efforts to clamp down on illegal boat immigration have only served to further line their pockets with cash from desperate migrants.
Greek police in the western region of Thesprotia have arrested two men accused of transporting illegal immigrants in a private ambulance.
A Syrian man has received a lengthy sentence after being tried for entering Greece illegally, facilitating the illegal entry of other migrants, and provoking a shipwreck.
People smuggling gangs in France are reportedly using poorer migrants as decoys to distract border patrol operations from catching migrants who pay “premium” prices to reach the United Kingdom. A clandestine operation being carried out by Britain’s equivalent to the
Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that Home Secretary Priti Patel prefers to “pretend” the migrant crisis in the English Channel is not happening as another 49 illegal boat migrants have been brought ashore in Britain since Friday.
Foreign criminal gangs operating in France have begun to focus their efforts on the people-smuggling trade to the UK because of the high-profit margins and ease of entry, a chief in Britain’s FBI equivalent revealed. The head of organised immigration
Home Secretary Priti Patel is reportedly set to announce that people smugglers will face life sentences, in the latest attempt to deal with the ongoing Channel migrant crisis. Under current law, people smugglers only face a maximum sentence of fourteen
An NGO boss is one of thirty people under investigation by Italian prosecutors for helping Kurdish illegal migrants into Italy from Bosnia.
The Border Guard in Finland revealed a major operation against a network suspected of aiding illegal migration by Middle Eastern migrants.
A French immigration investigator has claimed that some 100 people-smuggling gangs are running illegal migrant routes across the English Channel to Britain.
