Six people from a business group involved in migrant reception in Naples have been placed under investigation. The police probe found that the migrants 'received' were living in very poor conditions, with no bathroom facilities and walls of cardboard inside rooms carved out of a large hall.
Italian police has dismantled an organization that worked to bring migrants from Kurdish areas to Europe, including through the procurement of fake ID documents. Among those arrested was an Iraqi national linked to a Syrian responsible for a terrorist attack in London in September 2017.
Italian authorities have arrested nine people accused of exploiting farm workers in the plane of Gioia Tauro, in the southern region of Calabria. The victims include several migrants of sub-Saharan origin living in the tent camp of San Ferdinando.
Bari police on February 10 arrested two alleged smugglers believed to have illegally taken 32 migrants to the town of Marina di San Gregorio in the Italian region of Puglia. Investigators said they found maps and nautical routes connecting Greece to Italy on the suspects' phones.
A Syrian NGO based in the United States has filed a case with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to demand an investigation into alleged abuse and mistreatment of refugees by Greek authorities.
Three Greek border guards and one policemen were charged with assaulting asylum seekers on Lesbos. The officials were charged on Saturday after an internal investigation from Athens. They have been released pending trial.
Police in Italy have arrested members of a migrant trafficking organization and seized thousands of euros in cash. A two-year investigation linked people across Italy with smugglers operating in Turkey and Greece.
Four men are due to go on trial in Britain on Monday in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a lorry in southeast England.
Prosecutors in Treviso are investigating a migrant center in the former military barracks 'Serena di Casier' in the northeastern Veneto city after the number of confirmed coronavirus cases climbed from two to 257 in less than two months. The center's management was accused of failing to separate migrants who had tested positive for the virus from the other guests.
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.
A lucrative racket involving fake marriages and falsified exams of Italian language to aid clandestine immigration have been discovered by Milan police. Five people were arrested and 78 were placed under investigation on July 3.
Belgian authorities on Sunday said they rescued 15 migrants from a rubber dinghy that was taking in water 11 kilometers off the Belgian coast. The migrants were attempting to reach the United Kingdom from France.