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Five traffickers in handcuffs for the massacre of Lampedusa on October 3
Investigation of the DDA in Palermo and the Police: dismantled network who ran a human trafficking: the migrants often victims of rapes and segregation. Nine firm orders for two escaped because abroad. Thousands of wiretaps: "Dead so because he wanted to Allah." Meanwhile, police have arrested two suspected smugglers on board the ship with thirty corpses. Covered by the alarm smallpox was only chickenpox
ALESSANDRA ZINITI July 1, 2014
PALERMO - That day, in a hell of fire and water, they died one step away from Lampedusa, the dream destination and never reached. It was October 3, 2013, and the balance of the tragedy makes one shudder: 366 victims (photo). Today, nine months later, we are the first culprits of the massacre: police arrested five people - four more are unachievable, abroad - and issued warrants against 5 other organization responsible for human traffickers, including the other, of that trip.
The survey was coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Palermo and arrests - Glauco operation - were executed at dawn by police officers of the SCO and mobile teams of Palermo and Agrigento. The five arrested are: Tesfahiweit Woldu born in Eritrea, 24 years old and lives in Agrigento, Weldemicael Samuel, born in Segheneyti (Eritrea), 26 years old and lives in Agrigento, Mohammed Salih was born in Eritrea 24 years, resident in Agrigento, Matywos Melles born in Asmara (Eritrea), 47 years old and lives in Agrigento, Nuredin Wehabrebi Atta, born in Asmara (Eritrea), 30 years old and lives in Agrigento. Are still sought Afwerke Yared, born in Eritrea, 24 years old and lives in Agrigento, Shamshedin Abkadt, born in Wukro (Eritrea), 29 years old and lives in Milan, Ermies Ghermaye alias Ermiasnato Ghermay, born in Ethiopia and is domiciled in Tripoli (Libya) John Maharay, born and residing in Sudan in Khartoum (Sudan).
The charges relate to - for various reasons - the crimes of conspiracy and aiding and abetting illegal immigration and residence, aggravated by the transnational character. They have identified the two leaders of the organization, a Sudanese and a Libyan accused of having run the turnover related to illegal immigration, organizing trips: the first from Sudan to Libya, and the second - in close telephone contact with the first from the North African coast to the Italian ones - with the crossing of the Strait of Sicily.
The investigation started after the massacre of Lampedusa, have allowed us to reconstruct the routes and milestones, often characterized by mass rapes and segregation, that and many other terrible journeys made by hundreds of immigrants, pushed and exploited during their wanderings, by the members of a dangerous international network, composed of Eritrean, Ethiopian and Sudanese, whose main representatives are also recipients of the restrictive measure.
Investigators have occurred as the recruitment and transportation of masses of people in Italy could count on a bank in various Italian cities, where they were active "cells" of Eritreans, capable of encouraging people to stay in our country of immigrants and view of the continuation of their journey to other countries in Northern Europe but also in North America.
Meanwhile, sprouting wiretaps: chilling: "Inshallah! So he wanted to Allah", without any recrimination for the dead. There are more than thirty thousand intercepted conversations after the wreck. Difficult the task of the investigators of the mobile team of Palermo and Agrigento, with the help of interpreters, they tried to extricate themselves in thousands of conversations in Arabic between the components of the organization.
The investigation of the tragic sinking of the investigators did discover'' continuous physical violence and torture that have been repeated many migrants, as well as the repeated rapes, including group, which underwent several women.'' For some of the subjects stopped the traffic in human beings was a real job. One of them said he did not want to cut leave Sicily because "America is here for me." To say it was the prosecutor of Palermo, Maurizio Scalia, explaining the details of the transaction.
Prosecutors have calculated that each barge load as those sunk in front of Lampedusa, the first 3 and then on October 11 traffickers earned one million euro. The organization of Libyan, Sudanese and Eritrean identified, according to the prosecutor's. "The traffickers - reads the decree of detention - showed no concern for the outcome of the victims of their traffic which, unfortunately, in many, too many cases, it was the death of hundreds of them along the crossing of the desert , attacked by marauders or bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. "
Meanwhile, this morning arrived in the port of Catania, the Orion Navy ship carrying 396 migrants rescued from the Libyan coast and Lampedusa. Among the refugees, so-called Syrians, Pakistanis and Nigerians, there are men women and children. The quay is everything ready for the reception. Yesterday, one of the foreigners had been taken from a helicopter and transferred to the hospital Spallanzani in Rome for an infectious disease. It was suspected to be smallpox, but the analysis showed that it was a simple chicken pox. So the Navy has given the green light to the arrival of the ship.
This morning, the police have identified the two likely smugglers of the vessel rescued by the ship Grecale carrying thirty corpses found yesterday. Meanwhile, has just arrived in the harbor in the fishing port of Pozzallo with the bodies. On the ship of the Navy there are 566 migrants. Some survivors, already interrogated aboard recounted: "We were too many, without food, water, and who was in the hold near the engine could not breathe." Migrants heard tell of the violence in Libya, especially in regard to humanity-central Africa. '' It 'was all their fault, they put us in there like animals and we could not even go out because it was above all full, we could not move,'' he accused one of the refugees. "We asked to go back because we were too much and risked but there was nothing to do, they said now you are here and we have to get to Italy,'' said another of the survivors.
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