ROME (AP) — A prosecutor based in Sicily told Italian senators Tuesday his office has found no links or contacts between migrant smugglers and humanitarian organizations operating rescue boats in the Mediterranean.
Last month, another Sicilian prosecutor raised alarm by saying in interviews he has evidence that some NGOs, established specifically to rescue migrants from foundering smugglers’ boats, could be in collusion with human traffickers based in Libya, from where the vessels are launched.
Right-wing political parties, notably the anti-migrant Northern League, seized on the Catania prosecutor’s comments to support their contentions that the transferring of hundreds of thousands of migrants rescued …read more
Source: KXAN
