The News Agents Investigates: Hunting A People Smuggler

The News Agents

Global

Government, Daily News, News, Politics

4.1 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Northern France is full of the ghosts of British history. Today it haunts our present.

The News Agents went undercover and spoke directly to a people smuggler - who traffics asylum seekers across the Channel in small boats for thousands of pounds a traveller. Lewis reports from the beaches of Dunkirk.

Field Producer & Newsgathering Producer: Rory Symon

Editor: Gabriel Radus

Executive Editor: Tom Hughes

Commissioning Editor: Vicky Etchells

The News Agents Investigates is presented by Lewis Goodall.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:16.1	We need help from France to UK.
0:18.9	I make this.
0:20.1	Very good.
0:20.5	It's my work. Brilliant. How many people is going this. Very good. This is my work, okay?
0:21.6	Brilliant.
0:22.6	How many people is going to be in the boat, total?
0:24.6	How many people?
0:25.6	Maximum 15 people.
0:26.6	15.
0:27.6	I sent family with children like one year.
0:31.6	You look, this is one woman.
0:32.6	How many?
0:33.6	Children.
0:34.6	Yeah.
0:35.6	One year, three years.
0:36.6	Friend, I have cousin everywhere.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	Birmingham, London, Manchester.
0:43.3	You almost never hear that.
0:48.3	That was the voice of a people smuggler, part of the highly organized network of crime gangs who are funneling
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