Reuters, 10/06 11:26 CET
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police have
arrested two Ukrainians suspected of trafficking Syrians to Italy on a
sail boat, and have launched a probe to find the criminal organization
ultimately responsible.
Almost 50,000 sea-borne migrants have landed this year in
Italy, which is on the front line of Europe’s biggest migration crisis
since World War Two.
Most are sub-Saharan Africans and many travel on boats so
rickety they risk sinking before arriving and are picked up in Italian
or Libyan waters and brought ashore by the coastguard.
But finance police said in a statement the suspected
traffickers arrested on Thursday had managed to leave 16 people with wet
clothes on a beach in Calabria, in the toe of Italy’s boot, and start
making a getaway towards international waters.
Police chased and boarded the 10-metre (33 ft)
single-mast vessel and arrested the two Ukrainians on board. The boat
was confiscated and the pair were taken to jail after the migrants
identified them.
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Source: euronews.
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