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It is the hardening of border restrictions that has transformed normal smuggling into powerful networks of traffickers. A hideous mirror of migration policy, the traffickers are amassing colossal fortunes on the backs of the migrants. The militias who are now dividing up Libyan territory have taken over the cynical game of subcontracting the control of European borders for hard cash and diplomatic recognition that Gaddafi practiced with brio (“If you don’t pay, I will open the gates and tomorrow Europe will be black,” the Libyan dictator declared during an official visit to Italy). This situation, with its slave markets and forced filling up of boats doomed to shipwreck, would be enough to bring Sarkozy and Bernard-Henri Lévy before an international criminal court, if the Hague was not reserved for African kinglets and former Serbian warlords.
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