£10,000 TO ENTER GREAT BRITAIN

'Club class' illegal migrants are paying up to £10,000-a-head to fly to Britain on tourist flights via Ireland , it emerged today.
While people smugglers charge between £500 and £1000 for places in the back of lorries and trains across the Channel, airborne routes are becoming more popular.
They often have a much better chance of instant success, as expertly forged travel documents including passports and visas are thrown in to the ‘immigration package’.

The development was revealed in Paris following the arrest of ten smugglers who made around £500,000 over the past nine months.
All of the men have made full confessions about their activities in exchange for a reduction in prison sentences which could top ten years.
Centring their operation in a run-down flat close to the Gare du Nord Eurostar station in the French capital, they regularly booked migrants on to flights to the Irish Republic.
‘It was the Club Class service for migrants who had sold their homes and businesses to start a new life in the UK ,’ said an officer from the French anti-illegal immigration agency OCRIEST.


‘These were people who were prepared to devote their life’s savings to getting to their Eldorado, and an airborne immigration package was their best option.’
The officer said tourist flights from airports as far away as Greece to Ireland were not policed as stringently as those on major routes.
After transferring money to the smugglers via European bank accounts, the migrants would take flights using false papers.
Once in Ireland , they would use the papers to enter Britain via domestic flights or ferry sailings to Scotland or England .
‘It’s a highly sophisticated route, but one which is still used regularly,’ said the OCRIEST source.
‘Airborne illegal immigration does not come cheap, but for those who can afford it, it’s a much quicker and hassle-free option than travelling all the way to Calais to try to get a place in the back of a lorry.’
OCRIEST has evidence that the gang, made up of Iraqi and Iranian men aged between 26 and 54, successfully smuggled 150 people over the past nine months.

Most got to Britain , while some ended up in Scandinavia or even Canada .
The current tariff for the Calais-Dover route was between £500 and £1000.
But richer migrants travelling from central Asia to Europe would board flights from Greece to Ireland , for which the standard rate was £10,000.