On June 1, the same video was shared on TikTok with caption references to Libya in hashtags (here). “Libyan authorities are active in wide areas in Libya, so Libyan armed forces launched a security campaign days ago, to fight trafficking gangs and drugs trade and human beings,” the BBC presenter reported. “Libyan authorities found thousands of illegal immigrants arrested in the houses and farms of the traffickers. Libyan authorities decided to deport them, there were Egyptians among those immigrants.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. The video shows the deportation to Egypt of migrants found living illegally in Libya, with no evidence that the migrants are on their way to Italy.

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