On 24 March, the Attorney General’s Office reported that four defendants belonging to a network engaged in smuggling migrants and human trafficking in the city of Zilla were detained, pending further investigation. The Attorney General’s Office said further investigation resulted in proving that the members of the gang caused the death of ten migrants as a result of the torture practiced by the kidnappers on 164 immigrants from Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea. Seventy-one other migrants were forced to each pay ten thousand dollars for their release. The investigator thus concluded to order the detention of the defendants, pending investigation, and proceeded to pursue the rest of the members of the gang formation.
