Gangs of smugglers charge migrants more than £3,300 for a space on unsafe boat ...
Spoils of an evil trade: Gangs of smugglers charge migrants more than £3,300 for a space on unsafe boat crossing Channel to the UK Criminal gang responsible for yesterday’s crossing will earn more than £112,000 Security sources revealed migrants are increasingly being forced on to boats Record number of asylum seekers driven by the traffickers’ ruthless tactics
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Smuggling gangs are charging migrants more than £3,300 for a place on an unsafe boat to the UK.
It means the criminal gang that orchestrated yesterday’s doomed crossing will have been in line to earn more than £112,000, while others can rake in as much as £150,000 as they pack more migrants in.
Jean-Marc Puissesseau, head of the ports of Calais and Boulogne, said last night: ‘The people who are paid by the migrants to get to your country – with such bad weather, with such rough sea – they are murderers.’
After speaking to one of the rescuers who brought some of the bodies back to land, he told
