A group of 40 Romanians, including women and children, have been found crammed into a three bedroomed house in Dudley. Another 10 were found in a nearby property. Three people are being questioned on suspicion of running the suspected slave house.
A former doctor from Syria has described how he now makes £60,000 a month trafficking people from Turkey to Europe. He has warned European Union (EU) member states that the refugees will continue to come even if all the borders are shut,
The people traffickers making thousands of dollars ferrying migrants across the Mediterranean have laughed at EU plans to take their vessels by military force, saying the ships are easily replaceable, and that anyway migrants are starting to make the journey
Europol, the EU police agency, has launched a taskforce dedicated to rooting out the people traffickers who last year sent 170,000 illegal migrants in a perilous journey across the Mediterranean. 3,000 of those shipped across died as overloaded boats sank
