Greece sees migrant surge amid Libya-Turkey push for Mediterranean energy expansion
More than 5,000 migrants from Libya have landed on Crete and Gavdos since June, prompting EU chief Ursula von
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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