Two men have been jailed after pleading guilty to smuggling migrants in the back of a lorry. Tarik Slimani, 47, from north London, and Driss Hasska, 54, from Italy, met at a service station in Maidstone on August 4 last year. The pair attempted to move migrants from Slimani’s hire van into the trailer of Hasska’s lorry, before heading for mainland Europe. However, they were being followed by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers. They searched the trailer of Hasska’s lorry and discovered eight men and a woman inside. The men were trying to smuggle the migrants, all of North African origin, from…
