Article 5V5S2 Italian police arrest alleged Black Axe Nigerian mafia members over trafficking

Italian police arrest alleged Black Axe Nigerian mafia members over trafficking

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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
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Four arrests of cult-like criminal gang members made in southern Italy after Nigerian woman forced into prostitution comes forward

Four alleged members of the Nigerian mafia have been arrested in southern Italy after a young sex trafficking survivor spoke out against them.

The men, who were arrested in Palermo and Taranto in the early hours of Tuesday, allegedly belong to the feared Black Axe, a cult-like criminal gang that emerged in the 1970s at the University of Benin, according to police.

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