From The Guardian
Many refugee children have disappeared from the island amid allegations of people-smuggling by organised gangs
The diminutive figures were lined up outside Catania’s central station. There were seven in all, aged between 15 and 17. They had recently escaped from the massive government-run migrant reception centres inland or further along the Sicilian coast. Now they were alone, waiting for the city’s matrix of organised criminals to take them north.
Via Garibaldi in Catania, Sicily - Ph. Alamy
