These Influencers Who Push Young Maghrébins Into the Arms of Smugglers

In North Africa, smugglers often appeal to influencers to recruit candidates for emigration to Europe. On TikTok, Facebook or Instagram, they sell to their community the illusion of a better life, not to mention the dangers of the clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean. The Swiss conservative newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has investigated their motivations.