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Shootings And Pile-Up In 'People Smuggler' Chase


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An Audi is pictured with bullet holes and a shattered back window

Police shot at suspected people smugglers during a 125mph car chase that led to a fatal pile-up on a motorway in France.

The chase began in Belgium and ended when the four suspects - in a UK-registered Audi A4 - fled across the French border near Dunkirk.

 

A Dutch motorcyclist was killed and seven others injured in the resulting crashes.

 

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The mangled wreckage of the Audi saloon

 

The pursuit began early on Thursday morning when a lorry driver found 17 migrants in his parked vehicle near Ostend and was threatened with a knife.

 

When Belgian police intervened, four men suspected of being people smugglers sped away in the Audi.

 

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The chase took place on a motorway in Belgium and France

 

Armed police ordered them to stop before firing around a dozen bullets at the car as it sped along a road between Nieupoort and Oostduinkerke in Belgium.

 

Two suspects were hit - one in the shoulder and the other in the stomach.

 

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Emergency services treat the injured

 

The Audi became so badly damaged, it was travelling on its wheel rims.

 

Emergency services dealing with a crash further up the A16 had to dive out of the way as the Audi lost control and smashed into a lorry.

 

This led to a pile-up of several vehicles, including cars that tried to swerve out of the way.

 

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The incident led to major disruption for motorists

 

The motorcyclist died in a third crash when he collided with a lorry.

 

The four suspects - whose identities have not been released - were taken to hospital.

 

French newspaper La Voix du Nord said all four are Iraqis who had threatened truckers with knives to make them carry migrants.

 

Eighteen people were arrested for migrant smuggling near Belgian ports in the first four months of 2016 - compared with 41 in the whole of last year, a judicial source told Reuters.

 

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The pursuit took place around the French-Belgian border

 

Belgian officials believe people smuggling from France to Britain via Belgium has increased since London and Paris stepped up security around the Channel Tunnel and ports.

 

In March, France closed parts of a Calais migrant camp known as The Jungle.

 

A month earlier, Belgium reimposed frontier controls on the French border in a bid to stop the flow of migrants.

 

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vibranium
2 hours ago, Reefa said:

French newspaper La Voix du Nord said all four are Iraqis who had threatened truckers with knives to make them carry migrants.

 

How on earth does that work???

 

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I don't think you can get shotguns that easily over there.

 

And I wouldn't kill, I would only immobilize, incapacitate. Let them live and answer to the law, and find out what other evil plans they hatched.

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The UK in general will Always roll over to its counterpart  the states Fact..

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