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Libya releases Bija, one of the most dangerous and ferocious human traffickers

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CORRESPONDENT FROM CATANIA. In Libya there had been talk of this for a few days, today the confirmation arrived: Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, known as Bija, was cleared of all charges by the Attorney General of Tripoli and was released from prison; after coming out of a prison in the capital, he would have already returned to Al-Zawija, the city where for years he would have managed the trafficking of men while wearing a uniform of the Coast Guard.

“Lack of evidence,” said the Libyan authorities and, of course, as an act of the new government of national unity, the signal outside the African country is not the best. Or perhaps it is one of the prices to be paid to obtain the much desired pacification of the country. Bija was arrested last October because he was considered one of the most dangerous and ferocious traffickers; it was blocked by a militia of the Tripoli government just outside the capital, in Janzour.

The UN and the International Court of The Hague consider him one of the major organizers of migrant smuggling in the Al-Zawija area, west of Tripoli, and for this reason an international arrest warrant was issued against him. He is accused of having organized and managed the connection houses where to lock up the migrants and then herd them on the dangerous rafts and make them face the crossing of the central Mediterranean, in fact abandoning them to their fate, including that of letting them drown.

Accused of crimes against human rights, he continued, undisturbed, to carry out his lucrative and unscrupulous activity, at first even as an officer of one of the local sections of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Now, with his release from prison and his return to his city, Bija could take back all his lucrative business which at the time also included oil trafficking. According to local sources, he could be readmitted to the Libyan Coast Guard and even promoted to rank. Libyan media report celebrations on his return to Zawija.

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Bija’s name became public in Italy in 2019, when the newspaper Avvenire unveiled a mission to Italy by a Libyan delegation, organized by IOM (the United Nations Organization for Migration) and financed by the European Union. in which Bija himself participated.

The Libyans’ mission in Italy took place in 2017: the first stop was the Cara di Mineo, now closed, then Rome, with meetings with the Coast Guard, the Red Cross, the Ministry of Justice and even that of the Interior, according to what the Bija himself. The revelations of the CEI newspaper were “commented” by Bija himself who threatened with death both the author of the article, Nello Scavo, who now lives under guard, and other journalists who had dealt with him on social networks. Which are the same ones that are being talked about these days, among those who were intercepted by the prosecutor of Trapani in 2017 as part of the investigation into the German NGO Jugend Rettet and their ship Iuventa, even though they were not investigated.

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