Secret filming at a major UK railway station has captured associates of a violent smuggling gang collecting cash payments to secure migrant places on small boats.
Two men met a BBC undercover reporter on separate occasions on the busy concourse at Birmingham’s New Street Station to collect envelopes containing hundreds of pounds.
The confrontation was part of a BBC News investigation – fronted by Paris correspondent Andrew Harding – into the French operations and UK links of the powerful gang taking people across the English Channel.
Another reporter, posing as a migrant wanting to cross, also helped us gain unprecedented access to the smugglers’ notorious forest hideout in northern France – an area plagued by armed battles between rival gangs.
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