Afghan boy found alive in suitcase at Italian port

December 20, 2012 00:16

AFP reports: The police in Venice have discovered an undocumented five-year-old Afghan boy hidden in the suitcase of a man getting off a ferry from Greece.

Ali Shaker, 35, of Afghanistan, told police he was a family friend who had been asked by the child's parents to take the boy to some relatives in Germany.

Antonio De Franchis, the border patrol agent who found the child, Assim, on December 4, told AFP that Shaker was 'incredibly calm' when he was stopped.

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