Nigerian named John Ogais, 25, nicknamed Rambo has been arrested by Italian authorities at a reception centre in Calabria, Southern Italy. Rambo is said to be part of a transnational smuggling ring involved in human trafficking, murder, torture and rape.
Detectives have obtained testimonies from migrants about Ogais toturing people in makeshift prisons with at least two deaths. These migrants were pulled out of dinghies in the mediterrenean as they journeyed through the sea illegally to Europe.
One said "While I was inside that ghetto, where it was impossible to escape, I heard that a man who called himself Rambo had killed a migrant," one of the witnesses said according to the police statement.
"My cousin and others tried to escape but they were caught and tortured nearly to death," the witness said.
Another said: "Once I saw Rambo the Nigerian kill a migrant he had gagged and tortured for a long time", while yet another said he "personally saw two people beaten to death, an underage boy and a man killed by Rambo".
The latter was "killed by Rambo in front of the victim's brother. When he killed the man Rambo pointed a gun at the brother and told him not to tell his family anything and to get them to immediately send money" for their release.
Ogais was apprehended at one of the reception centres in Italy following reports of traffickers like him burying migrants alive on beaches in Libya should they refuse to board overcrowded boats
According to the UN's International Organization for Migration, there are between 700,000 and one million people in Libya awaiting their chance to cross.
Over 77,000 people have tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the year, the UN's refugee agency said Tuesday, while close to 2,000 people have died trying.
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