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.
ROME: Italian border police have arrested a 33-year-old Turkish citizen wanted in Europe after being sentenced by a Greek court to 25 years in prison for human trafficking.
The man, who has not been named by police, was caught at Orio al Serio airport in the northern Italian province of Bergamo as he was about to board a direct flight to Turkey.
He is charged with human trafficking and facilitating the illegal entrance of migrants.
Greek judicial authorities had issued a European arrest warrant for the man after he was convicted and sentenced for human trafficking between Turkey and Greece in 2014. He is now being held in a Bergamo jail.
Visitors have not always been kind to Bergamo. Most of us still place it as Milan-Bergamo after its airport (actually it’s Il Caravaggio Orio al Serio International Airport), and this year we saw it as the Covid-19 gateway to Europe.
The pandemic hit Lombardy hard and early; the world watching in horror as its grip fastened last February and March – a preview of things to come. It was a surreal light to shine on Bergamo, a medieval city in the Alpine foothills, suddenly portrayed not as a bustling cultural and historical hub, but through rolling television coverage of empty cobbled streets, eerie churches and boarded shutters.