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Kurt Sansone
He is fat, short, brutal and goes by the nickname ‘the fat one’. He is Gozitan and is supposed to be the ringleader in the sister island for illegal immigration activities.
This is the portrait of a man drawn up by an Italian journalist, who was in Malta recently to investigate the phenomenon of illegal immigration in the wake of the murder of at least four Chinese illegal immigrants in the Malta-Sicily strait by Maltese criminals.
A short report was aired about the case on Rai Uno last Friday as part of the investigative programme TV7, broadcast at 11.45pm.
Including a short interview with Interior Minister Tonio Borg, the journalist took viewers through the paces of a typical clandestine speedboat journey that takes illegal immigrants from Malta to the Italian coast.
With footage of the well-known departure points for this criminal activity, St Paul’s Bay, Marsaskala and Marsaxlokk, the journalist reminded viewers of the police investigation into Malta’s Beijing embassy on the ‘speedy’ processing of visas to supposedly bona fide Chinese individuals.
The cameras then shifted to Gozo, which the journalist liberally described as an idyllic isle where “70 per cent of the people owned two properties but only four per cent paid taxes”.
The Italian journalist claimed the Gozitan ringleader for illegal immigration was a man known as ‘il ciccione’ (the fatty, translated into Maltese as l-ohxon) whom everybody knew, but feared. In this context, the journalist concluded his report by reminding viewers of the two corpses found in Gozo recently believed to be unfortunate Chinese immigrants murdered during a failed trip to reach the Italian coast.
kurt@newsworksltd.com
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