London: Italian prosecutors are investigating whether the wrong man was extradited to Italy in a major operation against people-smuggling, the BBC reported yesterday.
<img title="Medhanie Mered in Italy. PIC/AFP" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/jun/10-Medhanie-Mered.jpg" alt="Medhanie Mered in Italy. Pic/AFP" /> Medhanie Mered in Italy. PIC/AFP
People said to be friends and family of the detainee &ndash; A 35-year-old Eritrean man &ndash; have told the BBC he is Medhanie Tesfarmariam Berhe (27). Speaking to BBC Seghen Tesfarmariam Berhe, said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not Mered Medhanie. He&rsquo;s my younger brother. His name is Medhanie Tesfar-mariam Berhe.
&ldquo;He is not a human trafficker. He is my brother. I called the [Sudanese] police but they said there is no person with that name... They told me there is nobody with that name in prison. All of a sudden I see him in Italy.&rdquo; Francesco Lo Voi, the chief prosecutor in the Italian city of Palermo, now said, &ldquo;we are carrying out the necessary checks.&rdquo;

Italian prosecutors are investigating whether the wrong man was extradited to Italy in a major operation against people-smuggling, the BBC reported yesterday

'He is my brother, not a human trafficker'

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