Italy is in shock after Father Roberto Malgesini was stabbed to death on September 15. The priest was well known in the northern Italian city of Como for his work helping immigrants and the homeless. The alleged killer, a Tunisian man with mental health problems, turned himself in to the police after the attack.
An NGO based in the northern Italian region of Lombardy has rescued two migrants who were exploited by gangmasters. Kali, a 23-year-old Indian man, and Irina, a 27-year-old Romanian woman, became victims of gangmasters after they migrated to Italy. They were aided by ''Lule,'' an organization in Lombardy that helps victims like them.
Italian authorities have placed 56 people under investigation, arrested one person and placed four others under mandatory residence following an investigation into arranged marriages with Italian citizens to enable South American and North African migrants to obtain a stay permit, investigative sources said on July 24.
An Italian court has sentenced a bus driver to 24 years in prison for hijacking of a school bus. The judges considered this an act of terrorism. The man was reportedly motivated by "political reasons" and his opposition to the hardline anti-migration policies of the then interior minister.
Italian authorities have arrested two men who are accused of holding migrants captive in a detention camp in Libya. Four Bangladeshi migrants recognized the two suspects and said they worked at a camp in central Libya where they were imprisoned and tortured, investigators said.
The British Home Secretary Priti Patel met with her French counterpart on Sunday, July 12 to discuss how the two governments can step up their action against the smuggling of people across the Channel. The number of those attempting to cross has risen this year to "unacceptable" levels, said Patel.
Italian authorities broke up a network facilitating illegal immigration from Ghana to Italy that involved a government official in the African country. Police said the official provided migrants with a handbook that explained how to get through border checks, as well as Italian language courses for payment.
German police have raided 26 premises across the country on Wednesday during an operation to dismantle human trafficking rings. Three suspects have been detained, who are alleged to have links to a criminal group run by a 65-year-old Kosovan national, who was also arrested.
A union for farmworkers FLAI-CGIL has opened an office in the southern Italian city of Taranto to support foreign workers and help them report cases of exploitation, in order to fight the gangmaster system.
What drove Sudanese migrant Badreddin Abadlla Adam to attack six people in Glasgow last week? There is increasing evidence that Adam was suffering mental health issues due to inadequate housing at the hotel where he was placed. Now there are calls for an independent inquiry to be launched.
Finance police in Palermo have seized assets worth 1.5 million euros from a 40-year-old Tunisian citizen suspected of trafficking migrants. The move was part of a probe coordinated by the State attorney's office in the Sicilian city, investigative sources said on June 25.
Italian authorities say they have dismantled an organization that illegally regularized migrants in the area of Naples by falsifying documents.