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UK in Talks With Germany on Seizing Boats Used to Smuggle Migrants

© AP Photo / Matt DunhamPeople thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022
People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022 - Sputnik International, 1920, 06.08.2023
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) is seeking to persuade Germany to seize inflatable boats that are used by human traffickers to smuggle migrants into the United Kingdom, a British daily reported Sunday citing obtained information.
Officials from the organized crime fighting unit are looking at EU and German laws that would allow inflatables to be classified as "dangerous goods," according to the report.
The NCA believes that many inflatable dinghies used in smuggling operations in the English Channel are stored in German warehouses before they are called up for use along the northern French coast.
Illegal immigrants trafficked from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, wait to be disembarked from a British border force vessel in Dover - Sputnik International, 1920, 05.08.2023
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These boats, the NCA argues, are made in Turkey and sold for as little as 1,000 pounds ($1,300). They lack a fixed hull and are prone to overloading with up to 70 passengers, making them essentially death traps.
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