{"id":10374,"date":"2025-11-12T03:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/inside-smuggling-trade-bringing-migrants-from-africa-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:14:44","slug":"inside-smuggling-trade-bringing-migrants-from-africa-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/inside-smuggling-trade-bringing-migrants-from-africa-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside smuggling trade bringing migrants from Africa to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"Theme-Layer-BodyText-Heading-Small Theme-SubTitle Theme-TextSize-xsmall\">As Europe struggles to cope with the flow of migration, General Haftar&rsquo;s regime has spotted an opportunity. <\/h3>\n<p class>&ldquo;Every time [migration] statistics go up, they trigger a panic in Italy or Greece,&rdquo; human rights expert Jalal Harchaoui tells us. <\/p>\n<p class>&ldquo;All of a sudden the Europeans become much nicer and much more apt to offer all kinds of gifts and incentives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"InlineMedia InlineMedia--image media-size-100\" data-lazyload-container=\"true\" data-lazyload-trigger=\"true\"><figcaption class=\"Theme-Caption Theme-InlineMediaCaption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class>The Italian government&rsquo;s controversial deal with West Libya&rsquo;s government to intercept illegal boats at sea and return migrants to their home countries is constantly referred to. <\/p>\n<p class>In the east, the deal is viewed as a lucrative business venture and they now want a slice of the cake. <\/p>\n<p class>From its own deals with Europe, General Haftar&rsquo;s regime would also want recognition of sovereignty over the territory they hold, Mohammad Eljarh, an expert on Libyan affairs, tells us. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"InlineMedia InlineMedia--image media-size-100\" data-lazyload-container=\"true\" data-lazyload-trigger=\"true\"><figcaption class=\"Theme-Caption Theme-InlineMediaCaption\" readability=\"-23\">\n<div class=\"Display--none Display--md-block\" readability=\"7\">\n<p class>General Haftar meeting Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in May<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Display--md-none\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class>General Haftar meeting Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in May<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class>Mr Eljarh says: &ldquo;As a parallel government that Europe doesn&rsquo;t recognise, they will always tell me &lsquo;why should we do anything to stop this?&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p class>&ldquo;&lsquo;We are under-resourced. We don&rsquo;t have the manpower to deal with something like this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class>That may well be the warning as well as the implicit threat which could prompt more controversial &lsquo;pullback&rsquo; business deals with the different authorities in Libya, internationally-recognised or not.<\/p>\n<p class><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-5\">Responding to our report on behalf of the East Libyan authorities, Lt Gen Essam Mohammed Abu Zariba said the detention centres &ldquo;operate in accordance with the laws and regulations in force&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW159497617 BCX0\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-5\">&ldquo;We are keen to ensure that no legal violations or human-rights abuses occur inside these centres, and we affirm that all residents there&mdash;who are irregular migrants&mdash;are treated in a manner befitting human dignity,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"Paragraph SCXW159497617 BCX0\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-5\">&ldquo;Nevertheless, we do not rule out the possibility that there may be individual violations by some members,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW159497617 BCX0\"><span class=\"Theme-ForegroundColor-5\">&ldquo;If such acts occur, they do not represent the ministry&rsquo;s approach, and those responsible are fully subject to legal accountability once the charges against them are proven.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class>Lt Gen Zariba described claims that East Libya is attempting to use the migration crisis to manipulate the West as &ldquo;entirely false&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Inside smuggling trade bringing migrants from Africa to Europe<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Europe struggles to cope with the flow of migration, General Haftar&rsquo;s regime has spotted an opportunity. &ldquo;Every time [migration] statistics go up, they trigger a panic in Italy or Greece,&rdquo; human rights expert Jalal Harchaoui tells us. &ldquo;All of a sudden the Europeans become much nicer and much more apt to offer all kinds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/inside-smuggling-trade-bringing-migrants-from-africa-to-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Inside smuggling trade bringing migrants from Africa to Europe&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}