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    Long road to freedom for farmworker accused of being notorious trafficker

    Judge acquits Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe after one of Italy’s most embarrassing cases of mistaken identity
    by Lorenzo Tondo Jul 12, 2019 5 minutes
    Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe (L) spent more than three years in jail accused of being Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a migrant trafficker nicknamed the General. Photograph: Handout

    On the afternoon of 24 May 2016, a man alleged to be a notorious migrant trafficking kingpin nicknamed the General was drinking coffee in a bar on the outskirts of Khartoum when two police officers pulled a hood over his head, kicked him and forced him on to a flight from Sudan to Rome.

    The arrest was presented to the press as a brilliant coup by the Italian prosecutors, who had captured the suspect with the help of the UK’s National Crime Agency after a long, sprawling international investigation that spanned two continents and five countries.

    According to the Italian investigators, the man they named as Medhanie Yehdego Mered was guilty of personally overseeing the perilous boat journeys of more than 13,000 people from Libya to Europe.

    But on Friday, a , who has spent more than three years in jail on charges of being a human trafficker. The ruling confirmed that the man arrested in the

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