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Facebook Matches Up Migrants With Smugglers – Reports

© AFP 2023 / VALERY HACHEFlowers float in the sea after they were thrown into the Mediterranean in honor of the migrants lost making the perilous journey across the sea, on April 28, 2015 in Nice, southeastern France
Flowers float in the sea after they were thrown into the Mediterranean in honor of the migrants lost making the perilous journey across the sea, on April 28, 2015 in Nice, southeastern France - Sputnik International
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The social network pushes refugees into perilous journeys to Europe, aggravating the ongoing migrant crisis.

A migrant opens his arms as he waits to disembark from the German Navy ship Hessen at the Palermo harbor, Italy. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A growing number of advertisements on Facebook promote services by people smugglers who seek to cash in on migrants hoping to flee war-torn Syria and Iraq, the Daily Mail reports.

Those wishing to risk everything for an allegedly "safe" passage to mainland Europe are asked to pay thousands of pounds upfront for a ticket and leave all possessions behind as they are taken on a perilous journey in trucks and boats, the outlet reported Friday.

Traffickers advise their customers to carry cameras with them to look like foreign tourists, and women are forbidden to wear headscarves.

In reality, these trips frequently turn out to be deadly as evidenced by Thursday’s find of 71 Syrian refugees’ bodies in an abandoned refrigerator truck that officials said was not suitable for carrying people.

In this Aug. 23, 2015 picture provided by the German Navy pregnant Somali refugee, Rahma Abukar Ali center, sits in a boat of the German Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, near Italy - Sputnik International
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Some 50 Migrants Found Dead in Smuggler Boat Off Libyan Coast
Migrants, including four children, appeared to have suffocated while on route from Hungary to Austria, about two days before the vehicle was found on an Austrian highway.

Meanwhile, search is continuing for about a hundred of undocumented migrants who were on two boats that capsized on Friday off Libyan coast.

Tens of thousands of migrants have travelled to Europe via land and sea routes since the start of 2015. The International Organization for Migration estimates this year’s fatalities among sea-borne migrants bound for Europe at 2,432, while 322,914 came ashore.

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