One theory is that a people smuggling boat off the coast of Libya, intending to sail to Italy, disappeared without trace.
[6] Measho Tesfamariam arranged the trip and "handled communication, logistics, and payment for the big smugglers".
[7] Measho Tesfamariam says that the boat was due to depart from the Libyan Khums (Al-Khums) beach, but he didn't witness the departure.
[2] Refugee advocate and migration expert Fausto Melluso, with the Italian organization Arci in Sicily, said, “It is inconceivable that a boat with that many people can go missing in 2014 and nobody know about it.” Alganesh Fisseha, an Eritrean political activist who fled the country herself, is an expert on refugee issues.
She was looking into a mysterious phone call to relatives of those on the ghost boat that the passengers were detained in a Tunisian prison.