The 444 Brigade, an armed group affiliated with the Government of National Unity’s defense ministry, has announced an “unprecedented strike” on fuel smugglers and human traffickers in the desert.
In a message via Facebook, the Turkish-trained armed group announced the seizure of “convoys of tank trucks in the desert carrying smuggled fuel out of the country” and “cars full of irregular migrants coming from abroad to cross the sea ”.
In a similar context, Libya’s Drug Enforcement Agency branch in Derna announced the arrest of the city’s biggest drug dealer. The suspect was trafficking hashish, according to a statement on the agency’s Facebook page. Authorities seized large quantities of hashish weighing 5 kilograms and smaller amounts from the dealer’s possession. Legal procedures have been taken against the accused trafficker.
