The Libyan Attorney General's Office announced on Thursday the dismantling of a network of criminal gangs infiltrating from Nigeria to Libya to practice witchcraft and sorcery, organize illegal immigration, kidnapping, drug trafficking, and theft.

A statement published by the Office on its Facebook page explained that the intelligence service referred information related to a meeting of illegal immigrants, with the aim of coordinating criminal activities run by five criminal organizations: "High Viking", "EMSI", "Eye", "Black Axe", and the "New Blacks in Africa" ​​movement.

The Office concluded that 35 illegal immigrants linked to these groups, which are based in Nigeria, committed acts of witchcraft and sorcery inside Libya, and exploited them in human trafficking, including forced labor.

The groups were accused of directing female immigrants under the control of the organizations to perform domestic service, running brothels in the country, and trafficking women internationally, as well as organizing illegal immigration to the countries of the northern Mediterranean, kidnapping, drug and psychotropic substance trafficking, and theft. 

Libyan intelligence was able to arrest the suspects, including the leader of the "Viking" group in Libya, and he confessed to the infiltration of the five organizations into Libya, and the consolidation of their presence by establishing structures in which hundreds of illegal immigrants were involved to achieve common goals between these gangs and the mafia organizations active in the Mediterranean countries. The Office said the investigators decided to refer all of the individuals to the judiciary.