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Almost a year after a boat accident in the Mediterranean in which 94 migrants died, an Italian court has sentenced a people-smuggler to 20 years in prison. The court in the Calabrian city of Crotone also imposed a fine of €3 million ($3.2 million) on the 29-year-old Turkish national, the ANSA news agency reported on Wednesday. The man is said to be one of four smugglers who steered the wooden boat with migrants on board to southern Italy last year. The public prosecutor’s office accused him and three other men of steering the migrant boat with more than 150 people on board from the Turkish coa…

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