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Tunisian authorities on Wednesday arrested an Italian man suspected of building a boat for irregular migrants trying to reach to Europe, according to a judicial source speaking to AFP.
The 45-year-old who was not named "works in a boat building factory", Farid
Jha, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Monastir, a coastal city
in east-central Tunisia, told AFP.
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