'No path ahead but the sea': Lebanese join migrant flow to EU


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Moussa quit his supermarket job because his monthly salary of US$55 (RM230) barely paid for his commute. He is hoping to find a better life abroad. Photos: AFP

If he wasn't making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon.

"If I didn't work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many other people," said the 42-year-old trafficker, who asked to use a pseudonym when he spoke to AFP in the northern city of Tripoli.

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