Photo: AFPFive hotel managers suspected of belonging to a network smuggling Albanian migrants into Britain were arrested Tuesday in a police operation in the French port city of Calais, a judicial source said. Those arrested were managers or co-managers of the hotels concerned, according to a judicial source. "These hotels were not owned by Albanians but by people who obviously, and according to the initial investigations, hosted people of Albanian nationality for this network of smugglers, in order to smuggle them into Britain," Marconville added. Meanwhile, the hotels have been closed "and protected to prevent them from becoming squats," said the prosecutor. Calais has for years been a staging post for attempts by migrants to sneak into Britain by stowing away on trucks or trains crossing the Channel.

Source: The Local February 08, 2017 08:48 UTC