After sending their 4-year-old daughter to Italy on a perilous journey on an illegal migration boat, in an accident that caused a stir in Tunisia and raised many questions, the Tunisian authorities detained a couple to investigate them.
Italian media said that a 4-year-old girl left her parents and travelled illegally for many hours before arriving at Lampedusa Island on a boat crammed with immigrants.
The complete family, comprising of the father, mother, and son, age 7, was intended to take part in the migration journey that began from the coast of the coastal “fisherman” area, according to the initial information. The father left the girl with a smuggler on the boat and came back to assist his wife and son in getting across, but he had already left and was sailing the child by himself.
However, according to the Tunisian authorities, her father was accused of “making an arrangement aimed at crossing the border clandestinely and harming a minor” and was under investigation for possible involvement in human trafficking. Hossam Al-Jabably, a spokesman for the National Guard, said that the research indicated that the father of the child gave it to one of the covert immigration trip secretaries to transport it to Italy for a charge of 24 thousand Tunisian dinars (about $7.
5 thousand dollars) and went back to his house so he could meet her and her mother.
The story of this girl generated discussion among Tunisians on social media, with some accusing the family of putting the girl’s life in jeopardy while others criticised the country’s severe social and economic conditions for forcing them to take a risky voyage in pursuit of a better life.
This tragedy is one of many left by illegal immigration journeys, which resulted in the deaths of many people who fled in quest of a better future.
Despite the many drowning incidents, secret immigration operations are still active, as the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, which is concerned with immigration, estimated the migration of about 500 Tunisian families to the Italian coast this year.
Additionally, he estimated that around 13,500 irregular immigrants from Tunisia fled from the country’s coast, including roughly 2,600 juveniles and 640 dates, and that 600 people are still unaccounted for.
Unrest breaks out when a 4-year-old Tunisian lands in Italy on a boat without her parents.
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