The Traffickers
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| First episode date | November 13, 2016 |
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| Presented by | Nelufar Hedayat |
| Production location(s) | Global |
| Networks | Fusion TV |
| Composers | Tandis Jenhudson |
| Dec 18, 2016 | |
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| ID | 2648137 |
About The Traffickers
Nelufar Hedayat goes under the radar to expose the global black market trade. Crossing the globe from Asia to Africa, she meets the people trafficking illegal goods and the ones who set out to catch them.
Essex lorry deaths: Caolan Gormley guilty of trafficking offence
... The jury heard Gormley, of Caledon, Co Tyrone, had " close dealings" with The Traffickers overseeing the fatal trip...
Migrants to Europe dying in gun battles and car crashes
... " But the problem is that the average person doesn t make a difference between The Traffickers and the refugees...
How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers
... The Traffickers were given their own codenames...
Two migrants dead, 30 missing after shipwrecks off Italian coast
... Police chief Emanuele Ricifari, who is in charge of the investigation, told local media The Traffickers would have known that rough seas were forecast...
Greece boat disaster: Two families united in grief thousands of miles apart
... " My son was picked up near the border with Libya by one of The Traffickers, who then demanded that I pay him around 140,000 Egyptian pounds ($4,300) or he d kill my son, " says Mr al-Sayyed...
France attack: Kalashnikov assault on car kills three in Marseille
... Regional prefect Frederique Camilleri told reporters at the scene that " the entire police force has been mobilised to find the perpetrators of these despicable crimes and to dismantle the networks of The Traffickers behind this violence"...
Cocaine smuggling submarine reveals Europe's drug crisis
... On a table at the far end of the room are dozens of brown parcels, each the size of a house brick, emblazoned with a Superman logo - the symbol chosen by The Traffickers who no doubt felt a sense of invincibility...
Tunisia migrant boat shipwrecks leave 27 dead or missing
... Mr Masmoudi, the Sfax court spokesperson, said it was crucial that The Traffickers themselves are detained, as he announced investigations into both boat accidents...
Tunisia migrant boat shipwrecks leave 27 dead or missing
Twenty-seven people are dead or missing after two migrant boats sank off the East Coast of Tunisia.
The First boat left Tunisia for Italy on Friday, with 37 on board. Twenty are missing while 17 have been rescued, a court spokesperson in The City of Sfax said.
On Saturday, four bodies were recovered from a beach after a second boat sank.
Thirty-six people who were on The Second boat were rescued and three are missing, the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson, Faouzi Masmoudi, said The Boats were made of iron sheets.
Since the start of March, there have been at least seven similar shipwrecks off Tunisia, with around 100 people dead or missing.
Parts of the Tunisian coastline are only about 150 kilometres from Lampedusa, an Italian island frequently used as a Crossing Point to The Mainland .
Its proximity to Italy has seen Tunisia overtake Libya as the main departure point for people fleeing conflict and dire poverty in the Middle East and Africa , seeking a better life in Europe.
In The First three months of this year, More Than 14,000 Migrants - Most of whom are from sub-Saharan Africa - have been intercepted trying to reach Europe from Tunisia, according to the country's coastguard. The Number is five times higher than for the corresponding period Last Year .
The figures for 2023 are " up very sharply because there are many more departures" said Houssem Jebabli, spokesperson for the Tunisian National Guard .
Migrants often pay vast sums of money to be transported in unsafe vessels by people smugglers.
Mr Masmoudi, the Sfax court spokesperson, said it was crucial that The Traffickers themselves are detained, as he announced investigations into both boat accidents.
The aim, He Said , was to find " the organisers of these attempted crossings who made them embark on iron sheet boats, which do not offer minimum safety conditions at all but which are cheaper to manufacture than wooden ones".
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
