We don’t have to see anyone in person,” he told AFP over WhatsApp. ‘Humiliated, beaten’One travel agent in Daraa told an AFP correspondent posing as a migrant that a package deal cost $6,500. “Every six months, we use the fighters’ rotation to send people with them,” the recruiter told AFP. Listed as “fighters”, the Syrian migrants are entitled to a Turkish-paid “salary” of around $2,500, the recruiter said. Migrants told AFP a smuggler’s associate — sometimes a security officer — escorted them out of Benghazi’s Benina airport.

Source: Libya Today August 17, 2023 03:25 UTC