MIGRANT smugglers in the Mediterranean are making as much as £400,000 per boat as thousands attempt to reach European Union nations from Africa.
That’s $518,060USD. The happy smugglers and the unvetted migrants who have flooded into Europe, meanwhile, are costing taxpayers billions of dollars, as well as causing a sharp increase in crime and a heightened risk for jihad attacks.
It is more troubling that back in February, intelligence agencies revealed that jihadist terror groups, including the Islamic State, “are now getting much of their revenue from smuggling migrants into Europe.”
“REVEALED: Migrant smugglers earning £400,000 EACH BOAT for horrifying crossings to Italy”, by Zoie O’Brien, Express, June 7, 2017:
Makeshift rafts, ramshackle boats and rubber vessels packed with people from all over Africa are being rescued from the sea every day.
The European Union insists it is doing all it can to prevent crossings.
Under the Malta Declaration signed early in 2017, the bloc agreed to pay the Libyan coastguard to stop boats launching from the beaches.
However, £78million later and after weeks of training, desperate men, women and children hoping to seek asylum in Europe are still making they way towards Italy.
Most tell harrowing tales of life in Libya, from being sold on an active slave market to being raped and beaten.
Following dramatic rescues this week by Spanish non-governmental organisation GO Proactiva Open Arms, many refugees revealed they have sold everything they own to fund their trip.
In just one day a flimsy rubber boat, which held 128 people, was rescued by the charity, followed by a wooden ship which held 261.
In the rubber boat, migrants paid up to £850 each, while in the wooden vessel the price of a space was up to £1,700……
common sense says
The Islamic State even pays smugglers to transport ‘African migrants’ (not refugees) to Italy. No doubt IS members are among the migrants, exploiting the refugee program as the promised.
More details here.
https://youtu.be/AfG1myglfhY
Kepha says
Nothing new about people smugglers making money. Back in the 1990’s, people from the Fuzhou area of China paid around 35-40K to be crammed into poorly ventilated, delapidated, out-of-date freighters to be smuggled into American waters, dropped, and given their chances with tide, weather, and Coast Guard.
Michael Copeland says
TRANSLATION
“Search and Rescue”…….Assisting People-Traffickers
The more the boats are met, and their passengers transferred, the more “customers” will follow.
More customers, more drownings.
Ginger says
That figure tells me that the smugglers’ earnings are being supplemented. There’s no way migrants have enough money for one vessel to bring in that amount.
mortimer says
The Mafia was in part formed to KEEP MUSLIMS OUT OF SICILY and now they are participating in bringing Muslims INTO SICILY.
mortimer says
The Italian government should pay the Mafia to help escort Muslims OUT OF ITALY.
Michael Casmer says
Boy, am I in the wrong business
jewdog says
518k is pretty good change. When the infidel Europeans start to flee Europe I know what gig I’ll be into.
Islam the religion of killers says
I hope they are conficating and destroying ALL THE VESSELS ..
Why don’t they just change or ignore the laws and just take them back and dump them on the beach ???
Islam the religion of killers says
Same phycology as Trump with the wall, look how just talking about it worked
David M says
Hardly, there is a George Soros & EU funded ferry service operating to bring them to Europe. They only have to get a few miles out of Libya, then they call the 100 foot long rescue boats directly, who then come & pick them up & bring them to Europe.
Todd Bensman says
They’re coming to the U.S. Southwestern Border too, as described in this academic journal of the Naval Postgraduate School: https://www.hsaj.org/articles/10568
patriotliz says
If it were not for Muhammad and his stinkin’ Islam, there would not be this humanitarian disaster. This won’t be resolved unless what’s left of the free world declares war on Islam.
Fed up says
If the European leaders had any sense at all, they would dump leftover gore from slaughterhouses to attract sharks from everywhere to the waters in the area, and then send submarines to sink the vessels. Have aircraft carrier blockades block any ship that tried to retrieve the scum; any resistence-fire the cannons and send them to the bottom of the sea,. Have hellcopters circle with sharpshooters and make sure there are no survivors.
Kolga says
Being an island nation has proven a blessing in these times of Islamic hirjah.
All ‘refugee’ laden boats found in Australian waters are turned around and assisted to whence they came by our navy.