TRT World | 22.02.2017
Al Bija is the biggest player in the coast guard “mafia” that has established a stranglehold on the lucrative human trafficking business in Zawiya and the surrounding coastal region. Nancy Porsia has this exclusive investigation for TRT World.
Nancy Porsia
ZAWIYA, Libya — Kalashnikov shots rumble from the city’s port as he meets with TRT World in a café near the coast of the city of Zawiya. The man is tense while he cautiously hunts for an isolated table.
„They attempted to take my life twice already because they want me shut up,“ he says in an anonymous interview. He works in the security services and he is here to speak out about his attempt to fight against the trafficking mafia.
The port of Zawiya is a fort on the southern Mediterranean coast, 45 kilometres west of Tripoli.