Libya’s most successful people smuggler : ’I provide a service’ | World news | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/01/libya-people-smuggle-provide-service
Article de 2014 signalé par Charles Heller à l’époque, qui reste d’une cruelle actualité. Excellente analyse.
With a joint of hashish in one hand and a can of Red Bull in the other, one of Libya’s most successful people smugglers reclines in his apartment, the rooms strewn with bowls of chocolates, and explains the rationale behind his business. “I am not a criminal,” he says. “I provide a service.”
In his 30s, the smuggler, wearing a gold medallion over a white T-shirt, declines to be named, but is happy to sketch out details of what he describes as a successful, legitimate business: the smuggling of those who can afford it into Europe.
“The traffic of human beings is a service widely requested on the market, I am just a provider,” he says.
This “market” is made up of millions of people fleeing war, persecution or poverty living across great swaths of Africa and the Middle East.
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