https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Police in Italy and the UK have arrested a gang of people smugglers who modified documents acquired from Italian citizens to smuggle Albanian nationals into the UK. https://www.thelocal.it/20180910/italian-and-british-police-bust-racket-that-smuggled-migrants-to-uk Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:46:26 +0200 italian-and-british-police-bust-racket-that-smuggled-migrants-to-uk Italian police broke up a gang including suspects with jihadist sympathies who charged migrants thousands of euros to rush them in speedboats across the Mediterranean from Tunisia, officials said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180410/italy-tunisia-human-trafficking-ring Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:12:37 +0200 italy-tunisia-human-trafficking-ring An Italian government plan to deploy vessels in Libyan territorial waters to help fight human trafficking will be presented to parliament early next week, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170727/italy-moving-quickly-on-plan-to-deploy-ships-to-libya Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:06:45 +0200 italy-moving-quickly-on-plan-to-deploy-ships-to-libya Police in the northern Italian city of Trieste have dismantled a human trafficking ring that used Italy as a base to smuggle illegal migrants into northern Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20140512/italian-police-crack-human-smuggling-ring Mon, 12 May 2014 11:36:00 +0200 italian-police-crack-human-smuggling-ring The Italian police on Wednesday morning issued arrest warrants for 34 people allegedly involved with a mafia-style gang that forced women from west Africa into sexual slavery in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20140205/italian-police-bust-sex-slave-trafficking-ring Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:41:00 +0100 italian-police-bust-sex-slave-trafficking-ring