Albanian people smuggler jailed over small boats crossings
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Moment Albanian people trafficker who used WhatsApp to organise 31 small boat crossings for migrants including young children is arrested
Mustaf Cunaj, 41, was part of a network of traffickers, which smuggled some 10,000 migrants into the UK. He has now been jailed for nine years.
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Five people die in attempt to cross Channel in small boat from France
Three men, a woman and a child reported dead with vessel said to have been carrying more than 110 peopleFive people, including a child, have died in an attempt to cross the Channel in a small boat near the town of Wimereux, south of Calais, French authorities say.More than 110 people were said to have been on board the vessel when it left at 5am near the Plage des Allemands. Continue reading
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Migrant small boat where five people were crushed to death was overrun by 50 penniless men from sub-Saharan Africa who rushed the dinghy as it was due to set off across the English Channel, prosecutors say
The group of young men came out of the dunes and stormed a vessel full of asylum seekers paying up to £1000-a-head to reach Britain.