20-year sentence sought for suspect in Eritrea-Libya boat trafficking

A victim only identified in court as E. told judges he was brutally beaten by Goitom with a water hose and watched people die around him.

When E. was finally put on a boat to Europe, it was a rickety vessel with no engine and he sang hymns with his fellow passengers as they were sure they would die, he said.

"I want to get peace of mind, I want to ask Walid (Goitom) if they did eventually bury (E.'s friend who died in the warehouse)," he said in his victim statement.