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Tunisian authorities have arrested an Italian man suspected of building a boat for irregular migrants trying to reach to Europe, a judicial source told AFP on Wednesday. The 45-year-old who was not named “works in a boat building factory”, Farid Jha, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Monastir, a coastal city in east-central Tunisia, told AFP. He was arrested Tuesday after authorities intercepted a boat which he built from plastic resin that had been used in a bid by migrants to cross the Mediterranean for Europe, said Jha. Three Tunisians who helped plan the crossing were also ar…

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