It was the Lampugnano station, in the western area of Milan, the hub of an alleged illicit migrant trafficking ring that functioned thanks to some international bus drivers corrupted by a "network" of facilitators.

This is what emerges from an investigation launched by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office with the involvement of the police and local police , which led to a precautionary measure order carried out against 7 people "responsible, in various capacities, for having organised a network operating in the context of illicit migrant trafficking" from 2022 onwards.

The network, as explained by the prosecutor Viola in a note, was active "in the provinces of Milan, Brescia, Bergamo, Varese, Monza and Brianza, Novara, Teramo, Aosta and Turin". The investigation revealed that some "foreigners" , the so-called "facilitators" who operated "in the area of the Lampugnano hub", would have approached "illegal foreigners" who arrived "at the station with the intention of moving to other countries in the Schengen area, even though they were not entitled to do so". And they would work "to facilitate them in their attempt, in exchange for payment of sums of money usually between 100 and 250 euros per person" . The drivers of international buses operating on the "Italian-French" and "Italian-Swiss" routes would have transported them. Some drivers who refused to carry out the transports would have been threatened instead.

The precautionary measures concerned the traffic facilitators, not the drivers.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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