British detectives warned people smugglers “our reach is global” after four suspected traffickers were arrested in war-torn Libya.
A Syrian suspected of transporting migrants across the central Mediterranean in fibreglass boats was arrested in “fragile fibreglass boats”.
He is believed to be part of a Syrian smuggling network believed to have moved at least two thousand people into Europe.
Evidence found on his phone suggested the end destination for some of those smuggled would have been the UK.
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It followed the arrest on 10 March of a second suspected people smuggler, detain...
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