Tackling the Issue of Human Trafficking in Europe: Operation “Greensea”

Between December 2007 and January 2008, French and U.K. officials arrested 23 persons on the suspicion of trafficking in human beings. These arrests led to a number of further arrests of illegal immigrants in both France and the U.K. The police operation, named ?Greensea,? targeted Chinese and Turkish individuals involved in a trafficking in human beings network which facilitated the illegal entry of Chinese nationals into the U.K. The Chinese network was in charge of transporting the illegal immigrants in to states of the EU, such as Belgium and France, and the Turkish network was then responsible for smuggling the individuals to the U.K...[more]