(Euronews) French police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling Middle Eastern migrants across the English Channel.
The criminal gang had allegedly organised the transportation of Afghan and Pakistani migrants to the United Kingdom.
According to police sources, the migrants were housed in Paris and were made to sell cigarettes illegally. They were then taken to Calais, where another group in the criminal network took them across the Channel in small boats.
Investigators say migrants paid €3,500 each to the smugglers, equivalent to around €80,000 per boat.
