Date: Fri Nov 21 11:08:27 2014
100 Family Reps Report Human Trafficker Measho to Swedish Police
243 Migrants Disappeared - Family Demand Answers
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helagotland.se | 2014-11-21
STOCKHOLM- Over 100 families, many of them in Sweden, are now demanding
answers to what happened to a boat that disappeared in June in the
Mediterranean with 243 people on board.Therefore, police reports they are
now a designated traffickers.
Representatives of 17 Swedish-Eritrean families from all over Sweden now
have together turned to the Stockholm police to report a man who they claim
arranged their families escape from Libya on June 28 over the ocean.
We want to know if the boat sank, or if they are prisoners somewhere, says
Zahara Siraj said. Her brother is among the missing.Swedish-Eritreans are
not alone. Families also in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and the
United States to police reports this week the same man in their respective
countries.
SEK 12,000 per person
There are not many facts of the case, but family members were consistent
information about loved ones boarded the small fishing boat, which sailed on
the night of 28 June, from al-Khums in Libya.The passengers were mostly from
Eritrea and Sudan.
International migrants IOM told TT that witnesses told of a boat with about
240 people who left Libya at the time, but never reached Italy and not
rescued. IOM says, however, have no specific information on the boat, such
as names.
Relatives say they made up on the phone with an Eritrean traffickers on how
to transfer money for the trip to Italy, corresponding to approximately SEK
12 000 per person.
The famous Italian investigative journalist Fabrizio Gatti has interviewed
the alleged smuggler in Germany. Dit be the man to have gone in September.
He claims to have only received one phone of the true smuggler, to be the
contact for the passengers' relatives.
Uncertainty worst
The man denies, however, in the interview with the Italian magazine
L'Espresso to have smuggled some or receiving money. He tells himself to
have lost a brother on board.
Uncertainty is for many the worst.
We want to know what happened, many parents are so worried about what
happened to their children, says Zahara Siraj.
When the great ship disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa in October
last year, when 366 people died, most Eritreans. Many victims had even then
relatives in Sweden. Of the 155 survivors, most have started a new life
here.
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