Crossing in larger vessel highlights smugglers’ changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coastUK politics live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesA dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday. It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.
Crossing in larger vessel highlights smugglers’ changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coast
A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.
It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.
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