Italian authorities have arrested four people on suspicion of human trafficking and aiding prostitution. The arrests also lead to the dismantling of the group that was allegedly operating in Nigeria, Libya and Italy.
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Italian authorities have arrested two Pakistani nationals as they were allegedly attempting to take undocumented migrants to France.
Italian police have arrested three foreign nationals suspected of taking undocumented migrants from Italy to Germany.
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Abdallah Hidou, better known as Malohiya, is awaiting trial on charges of trafficking migrants to Italy from Niger. His arrest was the result of a joint African and European police investigation.
Prosecutors in Italy have requested the indictment of four foreign nationals accused of being human traffickers. They were allegedly responsible for the migrant boat that was later rescued by the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti. The boat is at the center of a legal case involving Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
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The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation has definitively confirmed sentences of 20 years in jail for three human traffickers responsible for a boat rescued in the Strait of Sicily carrying 313 migrants as well as the bodies of another 49 migrants who died during the crossing. The rescue took place in the summer of 2015 and the event is known as the "Ferragosto Massacre", Ferragosto being an Italian holiday on August 15.
The EU border agency Frontex has denied having documented any "collusion" between NGOs and human traffickers. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner had claimed earlier in the week that Frontex knew of NGOs aiding smugglers.
A court in Berlin has sentenced two people, living in Greece and accused of trafficking minors, to almost two years on probation. The Asian couple, however, only played a small role in a major trafficking ring, the court found.
Carabinieri police in Carpi, in the province of Modena in northern Italy, arrested five local residents accused of creating a criminal group for the illegal entrance and transport of foreigners to Italy and the rest of Europe.