Italian Prosecutor: Wiretaps Reveal NGOs Working With Human Smugglers to Flood ItalyChris MenahanInformationLiberation Apr. 28, 2017 |
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Italian prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro said Thursday that wiretapped conversations revealed non-governmental organizations are working together with human smugglers to flood Italy with migrants and "destabilize" their economy. From AP: MILAN (AP) -- An Italian prosecutor on Thursday defended his accusation that non-governmental organizations operating rescue boats in the Mediterranean are colluding with migrant smugglers after one humanitarian organization said the charge threatened its work and requested proof for the allegation. In separate comments to the ANSA news agency, Zuccaro said he was identifying on a phenomenon, not individual organizations, in an attempt to prevent greater abuses. He said prosecutors would need investigative help to seek charges.Zuccaro told La Stampa last week: "We have evidence that there are direct contacts between certain NGOs and people traffickers in Libya." "We do not yet know if and how we could use this evidence in court, but we are quite certain about what we say; telephone calls from Libya to certain NGOs, lamps that illuminate the route to these organizations' boats, boats that suddenly turn off their transponders, are ascertained facts," he said. An investigation from GEFIRA exposed this exact crime last year: Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter and Facebook. |