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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Peter Allen

People smugglers caught out boasting about profits from sending migrants to UK on small boats are jailed

Police forensic officers at the Port of Dover after a large search and rescue operation launched in the Channel on December 14, 2022 - (PA)

Eight people smugglers are starting prison terms in France after boasting on social media about the huge profits they made sending migrants to Britain on lethal small boats.

The six Afghans and two Iraqi Kurds were sentenced to up to eight years each following their trial in Lille.

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