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The profiteers of suffering (Swiss Press Text 2017, by Dominique Botti) - Swiss Press Award

Sonntagszeitung

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2017

Dominique Botti

According to investigators, eight smuggling bosses controlled the bloody route from Eritrea to Chiasso. How they earned a fortune, tortured refugees, and sent hundreds to their deaths. A reconstruction. In the follow-up story, we showed how money from ordinary Eritreans in Switzerland ended up in the smuggling networks via Western Union.

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