World News 30-09-2003 who: Pensioner Angelo Borelli what: Questioned by police for buying Albanian toddler where: Italy when: This weekend snippet: The 69 year-old and his wife paid 10 million lira (roughly £3,500) three years ago for the child, whose father had given him to a trafficking gang specialising in "underage merchandise" in exchange for a colour television. There are "growing concern across Europe that small mafia-style gangs are operating a lucrative slave trade," says The Guardian`s Sophie Arie. [... more]

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