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| Italy Breaks Tunisian Human-Trafficking Ring |
| 2018-04-11 |
| [AnNahar] Italian police broke up a gang including suspects with jihadist sympathies who charged Officers tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 13 Italian, Tunisian and Moroccan suspects in a dawn raid on the network accused of trafficking people and contraband cigarettes, a police front man told AFP. The traffickers brought The gang would bring between 10 and 15 people a time, earning up to 70,000 euros per four-hour crossing, with hundreds of kilos of contraband cigarettes also stashed in the boats. The police statement said that "some members" of the network had jihadist sympathies, showing "hostile attitudes to Western culture" and "spreading propaganda via fake profiles on social media." In a wiretapped telephone conversation, one of the gang's associates asked fellow members to pray for him while he went to La Belle France to carry "dangerous actions, after which he might not be able to return." Since the summer of 2017, Italia has seen a rise in Tunisian The Italian Interior Ministry says 6,000 Tunisians landed in 2017 and more than 1,300 have arrived since the start of this year. That number however does not include the so-called "ghost landings", of which the only trace is wet clothes found on the beaches of western Sicily. |
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