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<h3 id="gigya-share-btns-2_gig_containerParent" class="text-wrapper"><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Eritrean people smuggler, Nouredin Wehabrebi</strong></span> <span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Atta helps Italian anti-human smuggling task force break the web of trans-saharan human smuggling network</strong></span></h3>
<h3 class="text-wrapper"><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Says migrants who could not pay for the next part of their journey across the Mediterranean were sold to organ traffickers for $14,940</strong></span></h3>
<h3 class="text-wrapper"><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Organ traffickers bought &#8216;hundreds&#8217; of men, women and children from people smugglers so they could kill them and their organs used in illegal transplants </strong></span><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Claims </strong></span></h3>
<h3 class="text-wrapper"><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Egyptians are &#8216;best equipt operators&#8217; in the illegal organ harvesting trade</strong></span></h3>
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<h3 id="gigya-share-btns-2_gig_containerParent" class="text-wrapper"><span style="color:#2e0606;"><strong>Nouredin </strong> <strong>Atta</strong> <strong>sentenced to 5 years in prison</strong></span></h3>
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<h6 class="text-wrapper"><strong>Ex-smuggler, Nouredin Wehabrebi Atta , guarded by Palermo Police. He helped unlock the case against the network of human smugglers</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Egyptian organ traffickers bought &#8216;hundreds&#8217; of men, women and children from people smugglers so they could kill them to be used in illegal transplants, according to ex-smuggler, Nouredin Wehabrebi Atta , an Eritrean peolple smuggler. Atta tesifying during a trial in Italy told prosecutors in Palermo, sicily the horrible fate that befell some of the trapped migrants from the African continent.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong>Another smugglers boat sinks along with it&#8217;s human cargo, abandoned by the operators. Atta, says the number of incidents involving migrant deaths, are barely known to the authorities</strong></h6>
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<div>Describing the &#8216;financing strategies&#8217; of the human trafficking industry, Atta, told prosecutors in Sicily that migrants who couldn&#8217;t pay for the next part of their journey across the Mediterranean “were sold for $14,940 apiece to groups, particularly Egyptians, who are equipped for harvesting organs&#8221;. The Egyptian organ traffickers would then kill the migrants for their organs, used for illegal transplants, the former smuggler has said.</div>
<p>The testimony of the Eritrean human smuggler detained by the Italian Task Force since 2014, helped break open a transnational network dedicated to the illegal trafficking of migrants from Africa into Europe.</p>
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<h6><strong>Avoidable human tragedy: Death in transit is the fate that awaits a disurbingly high number of illegal migrants</strong></h6>
<p>Italian authorities have arrested 38 people in connection with the case, 25 Eritreans, 12 Ethiopians and one Italian. While announcing what he described as having dealt &#8220;a harsh blow&#8221; to the criminal network, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the authorities gone a long way to unravel the activities of the network which which used Rome for its financial transactions hub.<br />
According to the Palermo police, Atta collaborated with authorities, providing for the first time &#8220;a complete reconstruction of criminal activities&#8221; of migrant trafficking involving operations at both ends, in North Africa and Italy.</p>
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<h6><strong>The boats are often barely sea worthy</strong></h6>
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<h6><strong>The fortunate ones who make a succesful crossing face an uncertain fate in European refugee camps</strong></h6>
<p>Atta who is the first foreigner to be granted witness protection in Italy, said he was motivated to confess the activities of the network due to his revulsion at the shocking number of deaths among migrants attempting to cross the sea , particularly the death of 360 people who died when a boat sank in Lampedusa. While noting that he was not involved in that incident, he stressed that the known number of incidents involving migrant deaths is only a tip of the iceberg:<br />
&#8220;The deaths that we were aware of were a small part of it,&#8221; Mr Atta told police, &#8220;In Eritrea alone there have been victims in eight out of 10 families.&#8221;<br />
He then threw the bombshell that migrants who can not afford to pay the smugglers are then sold to organ traffickers.<br />
Atta, was setenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the human trafficking trade.</p>
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Human smugglers sell migrants unable to pay for their journey from Africa to Europe to Egyptian black market organ dealers who kill them and harvest organs for illegal transplants
