Zeebrugge: A smugglers ‘safe haven’

The Belgian port city where the container in which 39 people were found dead is thought to have travelled from was identified as a people smuggling hot spot three years ago, it has emerged.

Zeebrugge was highlighted as a key embarking point for “clandestine arrivals” in a 2016 UK Border Force threat assessment, and warnings about migrants using it to get to Britain have been raised repeatedly since then.

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