Four Haitians, Widberley Predestin (26), Ismick Premier (35), Jean Louis (33) and Jean Vil (36) members of illegal immigration network were sentenced this week at the Criminal Court of Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), to sentences of 3 to 5 years in prison.

The investigation of the "Border Police" (PAF) estimates to more than thirty the number of landings organized by the network in a year, who brought illegally, for money, between 500 and 600 illegal [mainly Haitian and a few Dominican] in the department. The investigation revealed that illegal immigrants paid between 4,000 and 4,500 dollars for the trip from Hispaniola Island to the Dominica, paying in addition 200-600 dollars for the passage between Dominica and South Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) before being taken (50 to 100 euros per person) in a house in Petit-Bourg the time to contact their families, who had to bring money.

For the Deputy Prosecutor, Olivier Dabin, the four defendants were part of a structured network which acted as an organized gang, who received their instructions from a headend unidentified in Dominica.

Accordance with the requisitions of the Deputy Prosecutor, the court sentenced Jean Vil to 3 years in prison with 18 months suspended (avec sursis), and Widberley Predestin, Ismick Premier and Jean Louis 5 years in prison with 18 months suspended. To these sentences, fines were added between 3,000 and 5,000 euros for each defendant.

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