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Italian Mafia makes billions from refugee crisis, says Eric Reguly

CBC Radio | Posted: November 12, 2015 2:49 PM | Last Updated: November 12, 2015

Image | Europe Migration

Caption: Rescued migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessel in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy. (Francesco Malavolta/Associated Press)

Audio | The Current : Italian Mafia makes billions from refugee crisis, says Eric Reguly

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Earlier this month, The Current's Lara O'Brien brought us a documentary about some of the children who are making their way through Europe after fleeing their homes in Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan.
Listen to "Vanishing Hopes" by Lara O'Brien

Media Audio | The Current : Unaccompanied refugee minors in Europe are disappearing

Caption: Humanitarian workers in Italy have been doggedly working to protect unaccompanied minors as child refugees and migrants pour into the country. Some estimate thousands of migrant children are simply disappearing into Europe... many looking for work.

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The Italian Government estimates there are 8-thousand unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 living with no parents, family or guardian. Humanitarian workers in Rome say some of the children are picked up by human traffickers or fall victim to sexual exploitation.
Eric Reguly(external link) is the Globe and Mail's Chief Europe Correspondent and he says there's another disturbing element to the on-going refugee crisis – the fact that the Italian mafia has become involved(external link). Eric Reguly was in Rome.
This segment was produced by The Current's Gord Westmacott.

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