Trial begins for Eritrean man accused of leading brutal migrant smuggling network
Prosecutors say Tewelde Goitom, also known as Amanuel Walid, ran an operation bringing East African migrants to Europe under horrific conditions, demanding huge sums of money from their relatives to free them from camps in Libya.
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00:00A Dutch court opened a trial Monday of an Eritrean man accused of involvement in a brutal migrant smuggling network.
00:09Prosecutors say Tewelle de Goetheum, also known as Emmanuel Waleed,
00:14ran an operation bringing East African migrants to Europe under horrific conditions,
00:19demanding huge sums of money from their relatives to free them from camps in Libya.
00:24It was already noted earlier in this plea that the public prosecution service wanted to provide an answer to global migration problems with this criminal prosecution.
00:37That streven mag op zichzelf misschien.
00:39The aim may be politically understandable, but it is not the task of criminal law, let alone of the Dutch public prosecution service, to solve global issues.
00:49Criminal law should be limited to situations with a clear legal basis and within the Netherlands' jurisdictions.
00:59The Coupes say that he is a victim of mistaken identity.
01:02He was extradited to the Netherlands in 2012 from Ethiopia, where he was convicted of similar crimes.
01:08The trial is one of the largest human smuggling cases ever brought in the Netherlands.
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