Migrants arrested in Italy for smuggling may be victims
PACHINO, Sicily — All migrant Marc Samie has of his fiancee is a picture in his mind. Louise, seven and a half months pregnant, is standing silently on a beach in Libya, tears rolling down her face as traffickers force him at gunpoint into a rubber dinghy with a compass.
The armed men had ordered Samie to hold the compass and a satellite phone for navigation on the journey to Italy. He refused.