BBC - Violent Channel smuggling gang's French and UK network

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Smileless2012

We saw that Wyllow and it begs the question why the BBC has managed to expose them when the authorities seem unable to do so .

My question too when I watched the BBC news.

The authorities have exposed - and charged - some of them. (See my link above.)

The NCA has just been given funding to recruit another 300 officers.

Smileless2012

We saw that Wyllow and it begs the question why the BBC has managed to expose them when the authorities seem unable to do so .

My question too when I watched the BBC news.

Here are some of the NCA's outcomes:

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/component/tags/tag/people-smuggling

NotSpaghetti

Thanks Wyllow3
I'd missed this.

And I'm sure you are right growstuff

My daughter works for the NCA. She's not allowed to say much - in fact, she doesn't have security clearance to know details of most operations. However, I do know that investigations into people smuggling are ongoing and are often successful, but their aim is to catch the big guys.

Thanks Wyllow3
I'd missed this.

And I'm sure you are right growstuff

Primrose53

Patrick Christys of GB News uncovered these people smugglers a few weeks ago. He has reported everything he uncovered and nothing has been done yet as far as he knows.

youtu.be/rqFgnjxS3b0?feature=shared

He won't be told. The National Crime Agency doesn't publicise active investigations.

Patrick Christys of GB News uncovered these people smugglers a few weeks ago. He has reported everything he uncovered and nothing has been done yet as far as he knows.

youtu.be/rqFgnjxS3b0?feature=shared

Good to know growstuff.

Smileless2012

We saw that Wyllow and it begs the question why the BBC has managed to expose them when the authorities seem unable to do so .

The authorities do a lot, but they don't publicise their successes. The government has just given the National Crime Agency £million, some of which will go towards the recruitment of 300 more agents. They work very closely with Interpol.

There will be plenty more to take their place. Too many are making lots of money from this. It’s the tip of the iceberg.

We saw that Wyllow and it begs the question why the BBC has managed to expose them when the authorities seem unable to do so .

I'm wondering it its interpol, or a special European wide task force will take it up.

It will lead to a massive international investigation, but top work by the BBC.

"We have managed to identify three men - Jabal, Aram and al-Millah - all Iraqi-Kurds, who are believed to lead the outfit, which is one of the main groups in northern France transporting people to the UK by small boat.

We have also come across other senior figures, including a man called Abdullah, whom we witnessed shepherding groups of migrants towards boats.
Another gang member, Besha, who had escorted migrants in France, took a small boat to the UK himself, we learned, ending up in a migrant hostel in West Yorkshire having claimed asylum.

The findings are the culmination of months of undercover fieldwork and the creation of multiple fake identities to engage with the smugglers.

We have been able to build a detailed picture of the gang's tentacle-like structure and the ways it has successfully evaded the police.

Our investigation began in April 2024, after we witnessed French police trying to stop the gang from launching an inflatable boat into the Channel.

In the chaos, five people were trampled to death onboard, including a 7-year-old girl named Sarah

all quotes from
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly48nmmzdro