“We are basing our legal proceedings on other data, not on DNA.” – Prosecutors BY SALEM SOLOMON | VOA NEWS Italian prosecutors will not accept as evidence a DNA test that could exonerate an Eritrean man accused of smuggling thousands of Africans to Italy. It’s the latest setback for Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, whose trial has continued […]
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By Gaia Pianigiani | for New York Times, An Eritrean man accused of organizing an extensive people-smuggling network that led to the deaths of hundreds of Africans trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea has been captured in Sudan and extradited to Italy, the authorities said Wednesday. The arrest, which followed an investigation that involved the […]
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By DPA-Correspondent, Italian and German authorities have arrested a suspected human trafficker from Eritrea who had been on the run for months, police in the Sicilian city of Palermo announced on Saturday. The man, who had been on the run since April under an international arrest warrant, was arrested in Germany and deported to Italy […]
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By Daniel Sillas, You were sitting almost in front of me at the seminar “Horn of Africa. Fleeing war without a name and without an end”, held in Rome on June 24th at the ACLI national headquarters. You spoke and I patiently waited for longer than an hour for you to finish your speech. I was […]
Continue ReadingBy Reuters, More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, one of the worst disasters of Europe’s chronic immigration crisis.
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