Germany's Small Boats Crackdown: A Glimmer of Hope Amidst Chaos The recent raids in western Germany targeting small boat gangs have shed light on a long forgotten aspect of Europe's migrant crisis: the role of German law enforcement.
For too long, smugglers had been using Germany as a staging post for Channel crossings, exploiting loopholes in anti smuggling laws that only applied to EU member states.
The new legislation passed last December has finally closed this gap, making it a specific criminal offense to facilitate migrant smuggling to the UK.