Migrants wait to be rescued by Italian coast guard in the Mediterranean Sea, 30 nautic miles from the Libyan coast, on August 6th, 2017. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/ AFP via Getty Images
A trial has begun in the Netherlands of an Eritrean man accused of being one of the world’s most notorious human traffickers, overseeing an operation in Libya which held thousands of people for ransom and transported many across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
Tewelde Goitom, widely known as Walid, was already found guilty in an Ethiopian court in 2021, after he was apprehended in Addis Ababa in early 2020.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The defendant on trial in the Dutch city of Zwolle has denied that he is the person in question, though he has been positively identified by victi
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