A Pakistani migrant was
attacked with a machete Tuesday night by several alleged migrant
traffickers after probably demanding to be smuggled out of Italy
despite police having broken the Asian trafficking gang up,
police said Wednesday.
The attackers allegedly tried to sever the victim's arm with
the machete, police said.
The attack happened near one of the gang's safe houses in Via
Cecchi in Turin.
Italian police on Tuesday busted the alleged Asian migrant
smuggling gang that allegedly brought thousands of Pakistanis,
Indians and Bangledshis into Italy and other European countries
illegally.
The gang was broken up by Turin flying squad police helped by
French border police and Europol.
In Italy, eight arrests were made and two other detention
orders, while one arrest was made in France.
It is estimated that in two years the organisation managed to
move more than 1,000 immigrants with profits of over one million
euros.
The alleged gang was one of the biggest ever discovered
trafficking migrants across the French-Italian border, police
said.
Couriers take migrants across the Alps and are regularly
stopped by French border police.
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