Police from the Sicilian city of
Agrigento arrested a 25-year-old Nigerian suspected of being
part of a criminal gang involved in human trafficking between
Libya and Italy who allegedly killed, raped and tortured asylum
seekers in the Libyan jail where migrants waited to leave.
John Ogais, who was nicknamed Rambo, was at the Cara "S.Anna"
reception centre at Isola di Capo Rizzuto near Crotone in
Calabria.
Ogais reportedly arrived in Calabria last February and was
taken to the centre soon afterwards.
Investigators started probing him after some migrants
identified him as one of the torturers who operated in Libya.
Crotone prosecutors were contacted by colleagues in Agrigento
who had heard of the presence in the Crotone area of "Rambo"
after arresting his alleged accomplice, Ghanaian Sam Eric
Ackom, last March.
In the end, the Crotone prosecutors' activities led to an
arrest warrant issued by Palermo's anti-mafia and anti-terror
office.
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