Italian police on Friday arrested
the latest in a string of migrant smugglers caught since the
start of the Mare Nostrum rescue operation last October.
The Egyptian is accused of being the pilot of a boat
carrying 311 asylum seekers that landed at Pozzallo in Sicily on
Wednesday.
He has reportedly confessed.
The man and several Syrian associates had set up a Facebook
page to get news on crossing the Mediterranean.
The organisation allegedly got 500,000 euros and the
trafficker 6000 from desperate Syrian migrants.
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