Tunisia has prevented more than 75,000 illegal immigrants from entering Italy

 This has been reported by the Mosaique FM private radio station which has added that, in 2022, the Tunisian authorities twice arrested more than 35,000 illegal immigrants outside the shores of the country when they were traveling to Italy. The radio station quoted the report of the spokesman of the Tunisian National Guard, Houcemeddine Jbabli, who also said that, over the past several months, Tunisian security officials have intensified operations to deal with waves of illegal immigrants sent to the island of Lampedusa in Italy, especially from the southeast region of Sfax to other regions of Tunisia. Many young people from sub-Saharan African countries are risking their lives in the hope of reaching Europe for a better life. Most of them end up as food for marine animals The Italian island of Lampedusa is about 130 km from Tunisia. The island is often chosen as the first stop for illegal immigrants making sea trips to Europe. At the beginning of this month of February, the Tunisian authorities also announced the dismantling of the human smuggling network whose main task was to smuggle immigrants from various African countries to Italy. The National Guard of Tunisia announced the news in its statement published on the social network Facebook and added that various security units in the province of Sfax in the southeast of Tunisia have successfully dismantled a criminal network that was engaged in the illegal trade of human smuggling foreign.