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‘Merchants of death’ Channel people-smuggling gang jailed in France

Fransız mahkemesi tarafından 2022 yılında hüküm giyen bir insan kaçakçılığı çetesi hakkında bilgi veren bir içerik. Çoğunluğu Irak Kürtleri olan çete üyeleri, İngiltere Kanalı’nda binlerce küçük tekne geçişini düzenlemekle suçlanmış ve İngiltere, Fransa, Almanya ve Hollanda’da yapılan operasyonlar sonucunda tutuklanmışlardır. Mahkemenin lideri Mirkhan Rasoul en uzun cezayı almış ve diğer sanıklar arasında bir kadın ve İngiltere’de tutuklanıp daha sonra Fransa’ya iade edilen bir İranlı da bulunmaktadır. Çete yıllardır kuzey Fransa’dan gelen küçük tekne geçişlerinin çoğunu kontrol altında tutmuş ve İngiltere Ulusal Suç Ajansı tarafından en üretken çeteler arasında gösterilmiştir. Uluslararası operasyon kapsamında 100’den fazla tekne, 1.000 can yeleği, motorlar ve nakit para ele geçirilmiştir. Rasoul, daha önce insan kaçakçılığı suçlarından mahkum edilmiş ve ayrıca cinayet teşebbüsü suçlamasıyla sekiz yıllık bir ceza çekmekteydi. Çete, küçük tekneleri aşırı yüklüyor ve bazen tasarlandıklarından 15 kat daha fazla insanı tekneye sıkıştırıyordu. Mahkeme, çetenin sadece kâr amacı taşıdığını ve denize uygun olmayan ve tehlikeli teknelerde denize açtığı göçmenlerin akıbetini umursamadığını belirtti. Avrupa ülkeleri ve polis kuvvetlerinin katılımıyla gerçekleşen karmaşık bir dava olan bu davada 67 ton belge oluşturulmuştur.

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Kaynak: www.bbc.com

Eighteen members of a people-smuggling gang accused of arranging thousands of small boat English Channel crossings have been jailed in France.

The group – which prosecutors described as “merchants of death” – comprised mostly of Iraqi Kurds and were prosecuted after a Europe-wide operation in 2022 which led to arrests in Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Mirkhan Rasoul, the gang’s ringleader, received the longest sentence among those convicted at a court in Lille on Tuesday.

The other defendants included one woman, and an Iranian man who was arrested in the UK and subsequently extradited to France.

For several years, the gang controlled most of the small boat crossings from northern France.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said the gang – thought to be behind as many as 10,000 Channel crossings – was “among the most prolific” they had come across.

More than 100 boats, 1,000 life jackets, engines and cash were seized as part of the international operation.

Rasoul, 26, had already been convicted on prior smuggling charges and was serving a separate eight-year sentence for attempted murder

He was accused of running the “tentacle-like” criminal smuggling operation from his French prison cell.

The court followed the prosecutor’s recommendation, imposing the longest sentence on Rasoul, French media reported.

He was also handed a fine of €200,000 (£167,745), according to local reports.

Lille’s public prosecutor, Carole Etienne, wrote on X that a total of €1.445m (£1.2m) in fines had been imposed by the court.

The court heard how the gang overloaded the small boats, sometimes cramming up to 15 times more people on board than they were designed to carry.

In a statement, NCA deputy director Craig Turner said the gang’s “sole motive was profit, and they didn’t care about the fate of migrants they were putting to sea in wholly inappropriate and dangerous boats”.

The complex trial involved multiple European nations and police forces, and generated 67 tonnes of paperwork.

‘Merchants of death’ Channel people-smuggling gang jailed in France
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