Italian NGO Head Under Investigation For Helping To Smuggle Migrants
Italian NGO Head Under Investigation For Helping To Smuggle Migrants 27 Feb 2021 Italian NGO head and activist Gian Andrea Franchi is one of thirty people under investigation by Italian prosecutors for helping Kurdish illegal migrants into Italy from Bosnia. Franchi, who founded the pro-migrant NGO Linea d’Ombra (Shadow Line), is under investigation for allegedly aiding Kurdish migrants travelling along the Balkan migrant route through Bosnia in an effort to reach western Europe. The Trieste public prosecutor has opened an investigation into the Kurdish migrant smuggling network and has c...