FILE - This June 7, 2016 file photo taken from a video and released by the Italian Police shows a man identified by prosecutors as Medhane Yehdego Mered, center, a 35-year-old Eritrean, arrested two weeks earlier in Sudan, upon his arrival at Ciampino's airport, on the outskirts of Rome. On Friday, July 12, 2019, a court in Sicily will deliberate the fate of alleged migrants smugglers, including an Eritrean who claims his is a case of mistaken ID. The defendant's lawyer, Michele Calantropo contends the defendant's identity is Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre and that he's innocent, prosecutors insist his client is Medhane Yehdego Mered, an alleged human trafficking kingpin. ( Italian Police via AP/files)
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