Many of the traffickers and smugglers who operate in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia overlap with those smuggling migrants into Europe and while some simply facilitate illegal crossings, many other groups have more sinister motives.
Responding to the attack, Lega chief Matteo Salvini said: “Rape and attempted murder on a policewoman in Naples, foreign citizen arrested. Anyone who rapes a woman or a child must be put in a position not to do it again, for the rest of his days.”
