Prosecutors in Sicily have demanded an 18-year jail sentence for a man accused of captaining an overloaded migrant boat that sank in April.<br /><br /> Up to 800 people were killed in the disaster and hundreds of bodies are still trapped in the the hull of the sunken fishing boat. <br /><br /> Mohammed Ali Malek’s lawyer said his client was not the boat’s captain and paid for passage like everybody else. <br /><br /> “My client is accused of international people smuggling, multiple manslaughter and shipwreck,” said defence lawyer Massimo Ferrante. The 18-year penalty is what we expected. But now it is our turn.”<br /><br /> The defence will present their arguments in hearings set for July and October. <br /><br /> A report from international agencies Interpol and Europol says people smugglers made about five billion euros from migration into southern Europe last year. <br /><br /> About a million migrants entered the EU in 2015. Most paid between 3,000 to 6,000 euros to smuggling networks. <br /><br /> Some 800,000 people are in Libya waiting to travel t
