The Voix du Nord reports that two British men were sentenced on 12-06-13 to two years in a closed prison for people trafficking.

The men were arrested on 10-06-13 in the English Channel in an inflatable dinghy with 8 Vietnamese migrants.

The Vietnamese migrants (who were later released) told the border police that they were picked up in the middle of the night by a boat off a beach in Calais, and that they had paid up to €3000 to traffickers for the trip. However the suspected traffickers told the police and later the court that they had come across the Vietnamese by chance, having left a English shores at 4am on a fishing trip, and that they rescued the Vietnamese because their boat was sinking.