A man sentenced to 25 years in prison in Greece for human trafficking was arrested in Italy this week. He reportedly smuggled migrants from Turkey to Greece.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/14
A man sentenced to 25 years in prison in Greece for human trafficking was arrested in Italy this week. He reportedly smuggled migrants from Turkey to Greece.
Italian police arrested a 33-year-old Turkish citizen in Orio al Serio in the province of Bergamo on Monday as he was about to board a direct flight to Turkey.
The man had been sentenced to 25 years in prison in Greece for human trafficking between Turkey and Greece in 2014. Greek judicial authorities had issued a European arrest warrant following his conviction.
Smuggled migrants from Turkey to Italy?
The man had also previously been arrested in Italy in 2015, after a court in the southern Italian city of Crotone had issued a warrant on charges of facilitating irregular migration.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/03/12
The Libyan army says it has freed 120 migrants from traffickers in northern Libya. In a Facebook post, the army says the mostly Egyptian migrants were held captive and tortured in hideouts in the city of Bani Walid.
According to the Libyan army s own information, its soldiers freed 120 migrants held captive by human traffickers in the northern town of Bani Walid in a raid on Wednesday (March 10). It was the second operation against human traffickers the army conducted in Bani Walid in one week.
The migrants, mostly Egyptians, were released after a morning raid on the dens of human traffickers, the 444th combat brigade said in a Facebook post.
Turkish authorities have reportedly found 55 migrants from neighboring Iraq in two shipping containers at a port in the Turkish Izmir province. The state news agency Anadolu said the destination was Italy.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/25
After reportedly smuggling over 230 migrants to Spain s Canary Islands without any safety measures, 14 African nationals have been arrested on the Atlantic archipelago. Three migrants reportedly died during the crossings, which took place in January and February.
Spanish police said they arrested 14 suspected human smugglers on Wednesday who had smuggled more than 230 migrants to the Canary Islands. Three migrants had died during the crossings, one aged just nine, news agency
Agence France Press reported on Wednesday (February 24).
The 13 men and one woman were identified by the migrants as the organizers of the crossings and the people charged with navigating the boats that were used, police said in a statement. According to a police spokesman, the suspects aged between 19 and 45 were nationals of Morocco, Mali, Gambia, Mauritania and Guinea.