A notorious human trafficker named Abdallah Hidou, better known as Malohiya, is awaiting trial on charges of trafficking African migrants to Italy from Niger. His arrest was the result of a joint African and European police investigation.
Abdallah Hidou who is a local celebrity in Niger and is said to have connections in high places – was caught in late November, after a year-long police investigation supported by the European Union. He is due to make his first court appearance in the coming weeks.
Months of wiretapping and financial tracking revealed that Malohiya was able to access about 250,000 euros ($280,000) a year, deposited in bank accounts in Nigeria, where his network stretched, the police said.
Another smuggler in Agadez told Deutsche Welle (DW) that Malohiya was also active in the s*xual trafficking of Nigerian women, who had been forced into pros-titution in Niger and then in the south of Libya.
“He had his connection house in Sebha, managed by a Nigerian citizen called Adam ‘Ghetto’, where migrants were held,” the smuggler said, “and he had relations with militiamen running checkpoints between Murzuq and Sebha, in southern Libya.”
Three young Nigerian young women whom DW met at a shelter for victims of trafficking in Italy, recounted how they had been in the house of a certain Adam ‘Ghetto’ in Sebha, from 2015 to 2017. They gave detailed accounts of incidents involving violence and r*pe.
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