The International Criminal Court in The Hague is being asked to investigate crimes against migrants in Libya and the Central Mediterranean. Several European NGOs say officials in Italy and Malta could also be liable for having supported Libya’s actions.
On Tuesday, Italian police rounded up four suspected members of a Nigerian mafia-like gang known as Black Ax. The suspects are charged with slavery, human trafficking, kidnapping and recruiting prostitutes. Behind this case lies a vast system of exploitation that stretches across Africa and Europe
Syrian doctor Alaa M. will stand trial in Frankfurt from Wednesday, accused of having been part of the Syrian torture system. Torture takes place in over 100 countries worldwide — and doctors are almost always involved.
Police in Agrigento, southern Italy, have arrested four people. They are charged with providing fake documents to migrants, which allowed them to obtain stay permits.
Europol announced that 24 suspects have been arrested for smuggling migrants, drugs and stolen goods into and through Europe.
A former official in the Puglia regional civil protection office received bribes for assigning COVID facility contracts to two local businessmen, investigative sources have revealed. The former manager has been detained while the two businessmen have been placed under house arrest.
Two Pakistanis and two Afghan minors were arrested in North Macedonia for allegedly abusing other migrants "in an extremely cruel and humiliating manner."
In Greece, the trial of 24 activists accused of helping migrants reach Europe by boat has started. Among other things, they are charged with human trafficking and espionage. If found guilty, they face 25 years in prison.
Two aid workers who were involved in migrant rescues will go on trial in Greece this week on charges of spying and disclosing state secrets. Human rights groups have described the case as "farcical."
An Eritrean man accused of running a camp in Libya and subjecting migrants to "severe beatings, kidnapping, rape and or unlawful deprivation of liberty," has been put on a wanted list in the Netherlands. He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia for similar crimes.
Spanish authorities have dismantled an organization offering false documents to migrants hoping to make it to mainland Europe. 16 Senegalese suspects were arrested.
A Somali asylum seeker on Saturday was arrested by police after stabbing five people in Rimini. The victims include a child with Bangladeshi roots who suffered grave stab wounds to the throat. The incident sparked a political controversy with the League party attacking Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese