@DaveAtherton20 It’s run by governments and not criminal gangs, once a criminal gang has their money, they don’t give a F*ck about them, no criminal gang would give an illegal migrant a life jacket…..
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Ex undercover Police officer Robert Sole “Those people are not being smuggled by criminal gangs, they’re being smuggled by governments”.
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An undercover operative of 17 years claims criminal syndicates don't care if people make it across the channel after payment, but they also won't provide life jackets. The speaker alleges that every person crossing the channel by boat now wears a Department of Trade-issued life jacket, a government stipulation, not a criminal one.
The speaker admits involvement in smuggling people and drugs across the channel by boat and lorry. They contend that the current portrayal of people smuggling is inaccurate, asserting that governments, not criminal gangs, are responsible for smuggling people.
Speaker 0: Was undercover 17 years. No criminal syndicate gives a fuck whether you make it or not across that channel because you've had your money. You've paid up front. But, Matt, they will not be forking out on shiny new red life jackets for every boat person on that boat. And that's what's happening now.
Every person coming over this channel now on those boats is wearing a Department of Trade issued life jacket. And that's a government stipulation. That's not people smuggling a bit stipulation. That's not a criminal stipulation. Criminals don't give a shit.
So when you talk about people smuggling, is that human trafficking? Human trafficking. Yeah. Yeah. How bad does human trafficking in the UK?
Again, I never I never really got involved in it. I would so I don't know. But I was involved in smuggling people and drugs across the channel by boat and lorry. And it's the way it's being portrayed at the moment is not right. Those people are not being smuggled by criminal gangs.
They're being smuggled by governments.