Five people have been officially placed under investigation in the Marche city of Ancona for allegedly producing fake documents and jobs to enable foreign citizens to illicitly obtain residence permits in exchange for money as part1
According to an interior ministry report, people from Vietnam, Iran and Syria fueled the surge in numbers, with Afghanistan accounting for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of last year.
Two Tunisian migrants, including a five-year-old child, have died after their vessel broke down off the northern Tunisian coast, while 17 others were rescued. About 700 people are believed to have perished in total in 2024 while try1
Spanish police have arrested seven alleged human smugglers charged with the murder of four migrants at sea in November.
Three Afghan nationals have been arrested in the UK after being convicted last month in Belgium for their roles in a people smuggling network. The network was found not only to have facilitated migrant journeys through multiple coun1