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'Merchants of death' Channel people-smuggling gang jailed in France

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73% Informative

Gang accused of arranging thousands of small boat English Channel crossings.

Group comprised mostly of Iraqi Kurds , thought to be behind 10,000 crossings.

Mirkhan Rasoul received longest sentence among those convicted at a court in Lille on Tuesday .

Other defendants included one woman, and an Iranian man who was arrested in the UK and extradited to France .

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71

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66

Neutral language

88

Article tone

formal

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English

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52

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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