Channel 4's Smuggled criticised as insensitive in wake of lorry deaths

Home Office hits out at decision to broadcast programme so soon after Essex tragedy

The Home Office has criticised Channel 4 as “insensitive and irresponsible” after the broadcaster said a programme in which contestants attempt to “smuggle” themselves into the UK would go ahead less than a fortnight after the Essex migrant tragedy.

The screening of the first episode of Smuggled, a two-part series billed by Channel 4 as “the largest test of our borders ever conducted by the media”, was postponed last week after the bodies of 39 people were found inside a lorry container on an industrial estate in Grays.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2pA5jwP

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