Foreign mafias in Italy are taking
aim at migrant trafficking, according to a six-monthly report by
the National Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA).
For the foreign mafias, it said, "favouring clandestine
immigration, with all its stream of collateral crimes...is today
one of the principal and most remunerative criminal businesses".
This, it said "too often is tragically linked with the death
of migrants at sea, often at a tender age".
It said that "Maghrebins, above all Libyans and Moroccans,
were involved in trafficking migrants from the north African
coasts to the Sicilian coasts".
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