Prosecutors charge adverb in trafficking case, but do not look for sentence

Palermo antimafia division brings charges against 'Mesi' - the word for 'when' in Tigrinya

The elite antimafia division of the Palermo prosecutor's office has charged an adverb with the crime of human trafficking, defence lawyers and language specialists have said.

Charges against "Mesi" were brought as part of a sprawling international investigation on human smuggling, but it appears Sicilian magistrates confused the word for "when" in the Tigrinya language of Eritrea with the name of a man they thought was a powerful smuggler.