Migrant smugglers: A profitable business for criminals
Migrants trying to make a desperate illegal crossing to Europe pay an average of €2,500 per person to smugglers. Most of the money ends up in the hands of international criminal gangs.
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Niger: Flight Through the Desert
Niger is a principal transit country for migrants. Now, the journey has become harder. That has less to do with the recent military putsch and more with laws enacted some years ago. A report completed before the military coup.
Many still missing after numerous rescue operations in rough seas in Mediterranean
At least 30 migrants are thought to be dead or at least missing in rough seas off the coast of Italy after departing from the Tunisian port of Sfax late last week. The Italian coast guard meanwhile recovered the bodies of a mother a1
Greece: Reported pushbacks despite intervention of European court
A group of around 50 Syrian migrants were reportedly stuck around the Evros river border between Greece and Turkey for the last three weeks. On August 2, the European Court of Human Rights intervened, ordering Greece to provide them1
Inside France's battle against migrant smugglers: A closer look
With a record of 45,000 irregular crossings to the United Kingdom in 2022, the migratory pressure on the northern coasts of France has rarely been so strong. InfoMigrants spoke with Xavier Delrieu, head of the Office for the Fight a1