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In a significant development in the fight against illegal immigration, arrests have been made in Deptford and Croydon as part of a major joint UK-French investigation targeting people smugglers who advertise crossings in small boats on Facebook.

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The National Crime Agency (NCA) executed the arrests, detaining a 23-year-old woman in Heathfield Road, Croydon, and a 64-year-old man at Abinger Grove in Deptford on Monday morning (April 22). Simultaneously, another man, aged 34, was apprehended in Leicester. All three individuals were arrested on suspicion of assisting unlawful immigration and were subsequently charged, appearing at Croydon Magistrates Court on Tuesday, April 23.

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