French politician caught smuggling immigrants into Britain...

Christiane Chocat, a French politician, and her son have been arrested and charged with trying to smuggle illegal migrants into Britain.

Mrs Chocat, a 51-year-old municipal councillor from Seine et Marne south of Paris, is in custody in Portsmouth, Hants.

She and her son Benjamin Chocat, 20, are accused of bringing 16 Vietnamese migrants into the city in the back of a hired van.

The case will prove an embarrassment to the French authorities, who claim to be battling to halt the vast tide of illegal migrants trying to get from their northern ports to the south coast of England. More...

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