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Six people have been arrested in raids on a suspected smuggling gang accused of bringing migrants from the UK to France in lorries. The suspects were arrested as part of a National Crime Agency operation, with dawn raids carried out across various addresses in north London today. The men are aged 29 to 51 and are thought to be Moroccan and Algerian nationals, with a 39-year-old man from Algeria alleged to be the ringleader. Their arrests come after 100 migrants were found in lorry trailers that were intercepted as they travelled to Dover throughout 2023. Five other men have been convicted of t…