Moroccan Taxi Driver Arrested in France for Cross-Border Human Trafficking Scheme

The Moroccan migrant smuggler is a taxi driver in London. He brought illegal migrants to Great Britain who had barely spent a few hours in Folkestone, Kent, reports The Sun. Unexpectedly, they told him they didn’t like this country and wanted to go back to Spain. The smuggler agrees to transport them. He was first supposed to take them back to Paris, for a sum of around £180 per person. While he was transporting them to Spain, he was arrested by the French police in Dunkirk on January 31. In total, 15 men, all of Moroccan nationality, were on board his van.

Suspected of being part of a smuggling gang based in the United Kingdom, which earns thousands of euros through the cross-Channel trade, the Moroccan smuggler was sentenced to one year in prison for human trafficking and aiding illegal stay.