A lorry driver accused of being a member of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants has told jurors he only agreed to move cigarettes ‘for a bit of extra cash’. Christopher Kennedy, 24, of Keady, County Armagh, allegedly picked up two trailer-loads of people from Purfleet in Essex, transported from Zeebrugge in … Read more
French police have forcibly cleared a huge Paris migrant camp where more than 2,000 people lived shoulder-to-shoulder in tents under a motorway overpass. Around 2,400 migrants, most of them young men from the Middle East and Africa, set fire to their camp under the A1 in Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris last night … Read more
The moment a migrant was loaded into a tanker by French people smuggling gang that got 1,000 people into UK illegally before being raided by police Gang – called the Pierrefitte connection – made 3million euros smuggling people Police have watched them for the past 12 months in a surveillance operation Earlier this month, French … Read more
A migrant mother has been filmed crying out for her six-month-old son after being hauled onto a rescue ship after a dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean. ‘Did you see my baby? I lose my baby! Why me? Where is my baby?’ The woman from Guinea shrieks in the harrowing footage. Her baby, Joseph, was eventually … Read more
The Iranian skipper of a migrant boat which capsized in the Channel killing a family of five faces 10 years in prison after being charged with ‘aggravated manslaughter’. Police yesterday arrested the suspected captain who insisted he was simply another passenger trying to reach the UK for a better life. The unidentified 37-year-old Iranian appeared … Read more
Police today arrested the suspected captain of a migrant boat which capsized in the Channel killing a family of five – but he insisted he was simply another passenger trying to reach the UK for a better life. The unidentified 37-year-old Iranian appeared in court this morning and was placed under investigation for aiding illegal … Read more
Ruthless people smugglers ‘forced’ migrants to board a makeshift boat where a Kurdish-Iranian family of five drowned after being trapped in the cabin when it capsized among five-foot waves in the Channel, it was claimed today – as France was urged to bring the criminals to justice. Construction worker Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, his wife Shiva … Read more
A family of desperate Kurdish-Iranian migrants who paid people smugglers £21,600 for a new life in Britain agonised over the decision in a French tent city for days – before making the tragic fatal crossing with the hope of a ‘quicker’ asylum process and a decent education for the children in the UK. Construction worker Rasoul … Read more
One person is feared dead and others are missing after migrant boat capsizes off French coast trying to cross Channel to UK By Isabella Nikolic For Mailonline Published: 14:08 GMT, 27 October 2020 | Updated: 14:27 GMT, 27 October 2020 One person is feared dead and others are missing after a migrant boat capsized off … Read more
A Vietnamese migrant told how his parents paid £13,000 for a ‘VIP’ smuggling trip to Britain – just days before 39 people died in the back of the same lorry trailer. The group of 28 men, eight women and three children – two of whom were just 15 – suffocated while being transported in a … Read more