http://www.kleinezeitung.at/k/politik/aussenpolitik/4920204/Flughafen-Frankfurt_Schlepper-aus-Eritrea-in-Deutschland-festgenommen
Last Updated: 02/06/2016 09:42
FRANKFURT AIRPORT
Arrested tractors from Eritrea in Germany
Success for Italian and German authorities: The man from Eritrea is accused of being a leading member of an international tug ring and is volatile for months. He was arrested in Frankfurt.
Italian police thanks to the collaboration with the German judicial authorities arrested a month since volatile tug of Eritrea. The volatile since April man who was wanted by the judicial authorities of Palermo, was arrested in Germany and extradited to Italy.
The alleged tractor met on Friday evening from Frankfurt on the Rome Fiumicino Airport, which Italian police said on Saturday.
He is accused of being a leading member of an international tug ring that allegedly funneled thousands of migrants after dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean to Italy.
The criminal organization the detainees should have organized among others the journey of hundreds of migrants on board a refugee ship that had caught fire on 3 October 2013, the island of Lampedusa and capsized. Here 366 people were killed. Most of the inmates were from Eritrea.
The sex traffickers consisted of tractors from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and Ghana. The tractor gang had organized the journey of countless migrants to Northern Europe.
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Received on Sat Feb 06 2016 - 09:07:15 EST