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News,05 Aug 2025,10 mins
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ exposes UK links of violent Channel smuggling gang
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A ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ investigation has exposed the French operations and UK links of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats. A reporter posing as a migrant wanting to cross helped us gain unprecedented access to the smugglers' notorious forest hideout in northern France - an area plagued by armed battles between rival gangs. Secret filming at a major UK railway station also captured associates of the gang collecting cash payments to secure places on illegal Channel-crossings. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s special correspondent Andrew Harding reports.
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