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Article: Blunkett says Sangatte camp provides easy prey for people smugglers
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 25, 2002
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Dateline: LONDON
Home Secretary David Blunkett, who is pressing France to close the
Sangatte refugee camp near the Channel tunnel, said Tuesday said that
people traffickers found a host of easy prey at the camp.
Speaking ahead of a meeting with French interior minister Nicolas
Sarkozy about the Red Cross camp, Blunkett said Britain was committed
to breaking the international networks of human smugglers.
"The traffickers are ready to exploit any opportunity and those in
the camp at Sangatte are easy prey," Blunkett said.
"This situation cannot continue and the first of my two meetings with
the French interior minister later today will make a start in ...