{"id":1982,"date":"2015-01-09T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:25:41","slug":"migrant-ghost-ships-who-are-the-people-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/news\/migrant-ghost-ships-who-are-the-people-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant ghost ships: Who are the people smugglers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8211; by Jasmine Coleman &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Human traffickers are believed to have set the Ezadeen cargo ship on autopilot before abandoning it to continue at full speed across the Mediterranean with 359 illegal migrants on board.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[\u2026] Police in Italy say they arrested three people when coastguards managed to board the Blue Sky M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports in Italian media, one of them was Rani Sarkas, a Syrian migrant who said he had been paid \u00a310,000 by smugglers to take charge of the ship once they had abandoned it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Although the Italian and other governments may be often proud of some arrests of &#8216;boat drivers&#8217;, the illegal migration bosses are still safely based in Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Italy,&#8221; said Andrea Di Nicola, assistant professor in criminology at the University of Trento and co-author of the book Confessions of a People Smuggler. [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-globe \" ><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30715001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.bbc.com\/world-europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Jasmine Coleman &#8211; Human traffickers are believed to have set the Ezadeen cargo ship on autopilot before abandoning it to continue at full speed across the Mediterranean with 359 illegal migrants on board. [\u2026] Police in Italy say they arrested three people when coastguards managed to board the Blue Sky M. According to reports in Italian media, one of them was Rani Sarkas, a Syrian migrant who said he had been paid \u00a310,000 by smugglers to take charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecrime.unitn.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}