Hadish Abayu, accused of people smuggling, has told jurors that he was one of the migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean, and not the smugglerA man accused of people smuggling has testified in his own trial this afternoon, telling jurors that he had been mistaken for one of the organisers of the smuggling operation by the other passengers.58-year-old Hadish Abayu is on trial, accused of people smuggling and complicity in the trafficking of persons. They (the organisers) take our money and run away,” he told jurors. When we arrived in Malta some people started asking questions about the six who had been arrested in Libya and the money they had paid. “They got it in their mind that, because I was a political commissioner in Eritrea, I was their enemy,” he said. “I met the accused for the first time when I was in Libya.

Source: Libya Today January 10, 2017 10:06 UTC