|
0 registered members (),
64
guests, and 25
spiders. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums21
Topics43,472
Posts1,090,287
Members10,381
| |
Most Online1,254
Mar 13th, 2025
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1118028
03/23/25 07:06 PM
03/23/25 07:06 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1118489
03/28/25 02:44 PM
03/28/25 02:44 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1119660
04/08/25 04:35 PM
04/08/25 04:35 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 31,010
Hollander
|
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 31,010
|
Italian police say they disrupted migrant smuggling ring, 15 Egyptians arrested
By Emilio Parodi
April 8, 20253:12 PM GMT+2Updated 7 hours ago
MILAN, April 8 (Reuters) - Italian police said on Tuesday they had dismantled a migrant smuggling network, leading to the arrests in several countries of 15 Egyptians involved in using sailboats for dangerous illegal sea crossings from Turkey to Greece and Italy.
According to an Italian police statement, the network facilitated the illegal entry into Italy of at least 3,000 migrants since 2021, earning more than $30 million by charging them $10,000 each.
The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue
The Italian police said the arrests were made simultaneously in multiple countries with the cooperation of Albanian, German, Turkish and Omani police, coordinated by Italian anti-mafia prosecutors in Sicily and relying on Interpol and Europol.
The smuggling network had been led by an Egyptian who ran operations from Istanbul, the Italian police said.
"The organisation had set up a system that involved recruiting professional skippers, almost all Egyptian, providing logistical support in Turkey while the migrants waited to leave, and transporting them in sailboats to the Greek and Italian coasts," Italian police said in a statement.
Crossings departing from the Turkish ports of Bodrum, Izmir and Marmari took up to a week, with dozens of migrants crammed on board 12-15 metre sailboats with no life-saving equipment, the statement said.
Tens of thousands of migrants are believed to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in recent years. The sea route from Turkey to Italy has been particularly notorious since February 2023, when at least 94 people died off Cutro in southern Italy in one of the worst disasters of the crisis.
"The king is dead, long live the king!"
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120346
04/17/25 11:25 AM
04/17/25 11:25 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120354
04/17/25 03:08 PM
04/17/25 03:08 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120356
04/17/25 03:12 PM
04/17/25 03:12 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120359
04/17/25 03:16 PM
04/17/25 03:16 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120361
04/17/25 03:20 PM
04/17/25 03:20 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120365
04/17/25 03:25 PM
04/17/25 03:25 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
Re: Human Trafficking
[Re: Ciment]
#1120879
04/23/25 08:51 AM
04/23/25 08:51 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
Ciment
OP
|
OP
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 13,733
|
|
|
|
|
