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The Somali technique: the evidence

(B2) EU Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministers were able to watch a film made by the Italian Navy last week showing that the immigrant boats are a story of smugglers and highly organized gangs that look very strangely like what happens in piracy.

Very recently, just before the Foreign Affairs Council, a ship from the Italian operation Mare Nostrum had also intercepted one of these mother ships and had arrested 16 traffickers, recognized as such by the migrants.

B2 was able to obtain an extract from this film (to watch on the channel YouTube of B2) and pictures. Uplifting! We can clearly see the link between the ship - mother ship - and the refugee ship - released later. This visually confirms the information published recently (Read: The Somali technique for immigrants?) It remains to be seen whether this practice is exceptional or common.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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