Italian Interior Ministry to set up task force to fight human trafficking
Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said on Tuesday that Italy would set up a special national task force to combat human traffickers responsible for the tragic shipwrecks, leading to scores of migrant deaths off the Italian coasts.
Amato said that the special force would be similar to the national anti-terrorism and anti-Mafia teams, which have successfully made a series of significant arrests.
After meeting with Piero Grasso, head of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate (DNA), Amato said the two groups of magistrates would be based in the Sicilian cities of Palermo and Agrigento.
The Rome-based police experts will handle the investigation and collect information obtained by the police around the country.
Human trafficking is just as dangerous as terrorism and the Mafia, according to Amato, who stressed that it “threatens society and the law.”
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Italian Interior Ministry to set up task force to fight human trafficking
