France, Germany and Belgium have dismantled “one of the most important’ migrant smuggling networks. Nineteen individuals were arrested on Wednesday in Germany.
The network, whose members are Iraqi and Syrian nationals of Kurdish origin, is suspected of having smuggled illegal migrants from the Middle East and East Africa from France to the United Kingdom. To do this, the suspects, all based in Germany, purchased “low quality” inflatable boats en masse, imported from China via Turkey, before transporting them to the beaches of Calais.