“Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig,” one salesman said. Twelve Nigerian men were sold at the auction. Referred to as “merchandise,” the men being sold into slavery were migrants and refugees. There, they secretly filmed an auction outside the Libyan capital of Tripoli. 400? 700? 800?”ĬNN traveled to Libya to verify the authenticity of the footage. The footage shows an auctioneer standing in front of a group of young men, shouting: “Big strong boys for farm work. Footage released by CNN shows men being sold at an auction in Libya.
