70 years for people smuggling gang who said they were ‘helping the government’ by taking illegals back to France

Seven people traffickers who smuggled migrants into France in the the back of lorries and boasted they were doing the ‘government’s job for them’ have been jailed for a total of 70 years. Algerian Azize Benaniba, 41, was the head of the gang and videos were found on his phone of terrified families including children screaming for help in the back of a locked trailer. The smugglers brought migrants of North African origin into the UK on tourist visas. They…