In Tunis
Bintou* is worth €1,150.
The Guinean woman, a candidate for departure to Europe, was kidnapped in early February in Sfax by other sub-Saharan migrants.
She was the victim of human trafficking which is growing, feeding on the growing vulnerability of Sub-Saharan people in Tunisia.
Bintou, 32, arrived legally - Guineans are entitled to a 3-month stay - in Tunisia in August 2023 with one goal: to join her husband, Bakary*, a political refugee in France.
Threatened by her ex-partner back home, the thirty-year-old is in a hurry and cannot bear the idea of waiting for the end of the family reunification process.
On January 29, she boarded a Zodiac in Sfax - the country's second city which has become the main departure platform for Italy -, hoping to cross the Mediterranean.
Also read: In Sfax, Tunisia, tensions between the police and migrants
On board, around fifty other Sub-Saharans.
The trip cost him 1,500 euros but only lasted an hour.
The Tunisian maritime guard intercepts the inflatable and brings everyone back…
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