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The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail

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Level • Pre-intermediate / Intermediate

m Wanner
a. Woik with a partner, Write Ihe names of soc Ma! media sites, e,g, roc eboolk.
b. Who do you think uses these social media sites? E.g.
19eriagrers probably use .„

 kty words
MatCh the Key words with the definitions, Then find them in the article to read them in ConteXt. The
paragraph numbers will help you,

1._
whenit03saidMatsomeonehasdonesornethIngwrongorcommittedacrime
________________(pare 2)
2.__________________a bad experience that continues for a long time (pare 3)
3.__________________people who find out the facts about a crime
_________________________________________{Para 3) (pare
4_ a very diSculi or frightening siluatIon: a very frightening dream__________________ di)
5, the act of letting some Ohe leave a prison (pa* 5)
the right lo stay in a country because resuming to your Own country cou[ci be dangerous ror
you (para 6)

7 take someone 10 a police station because they may have commrttecl Crime
(pars 6)

8_ someone who leaves ihelr coUnti)r, eSpetiarly because of war or another dangerous event
(pm 7}
g a lawyer who must try lo prove in court that someone is guilty Of a crime
(pare 9)
people W110 see a Crime happen______________________(para
11.___________________not guilty of a crime (pars 9)
12.___________________Say or think that someone is the reason for your bad situation
(pars )
 Coilorations
Make collocations that are important ILO the story. and write them next to Their meanings. Find the
collocation's in paragraph 2 to clheck your answers.

traffiCker Mistaken human identity

1. someone who moves people illegally, often to a different country, in

return formoney
2. when people think you are someone else
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The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
Level I • Pre-intermediate 1 intermediate
The wrong man; the Facebook friend
request that led to three years In jail
Lorenzo Tondo
9 August, 2019
1 Every morning for three years, a prison guard
woke Medrianie Tesfamariam Bathe by calling
someone else's name. At court, a judge ordered
him to stand and sit down, using a name thal was
not his.
2 This is one of Italy's most famous cases of
mistaken Identity. In May 2016, Berhe was accused
of being one of the world's most wanted human
traffickers, Medhanie Yeticlego littered. Al thattime,
therealcriminalwasHyingagoodlifein Africa.But
Berne. who had earned money milking cows, was
told he could go to Jail for 14 years.
3 Ms ordeal began when he sent a Facebook
friend request to Moran wife, Lidya Tesfu,
because [le thought she was pretty. Because of
this friend request, Investigators decided that he
was the human trafficker using a new name.
4 1 thought about killing myself,'" said Berhe,
22. 'My three yeam in Jail were like an endless
nightmare, which all started with a friendship
Facebook "
The story ended in July 2 019 when a Judge in
Sicily confirmed it was a case of mistaken identrly
and ordered Be rhe's immediate release.
6 Today. Berhe lives as a free man in a small
Flat In Palermo Italy has given him asylum_
'Sometimes, I'm tented the police will arrest me
and my nightmare will start all over again: he
said. 'My life will never be the same."
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I On the afternoon of 24 May 2016, Belie, a
refugee from Eritrea, was drinking coffee in a bar
in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Suddenly, six
police officers pulled a hood over his head, took
him away and put him on a plane to Rome.
8 Berhe had no idea what he had done wrong.
In Rome, they told me I was Meted, a human
trafficker I thought they were crazy."
9 Berhe was sent to Palermo's Pagllareill prison.
Lidya Tesfu said that Berhe was not her husband,
but me prosecutor did not believe her. Two DNA
tests, many witnesses and reporting by the
Guardian and New Yorker, who spoke to the
realhumantrafficker`,allshowedthathewas
innocent. but his ordeal continued.
10 if I could go back in time, I'd cut off the finger
I
used to send the friend request," Berrie said.
"I didn't know she was Merecrs wife. She just
looked nice, That Facebook contact got me into
this crazy situation
11 "While I was in prison, Mered was enjoying hts
freedom in Uganda," Berne sand. "But f don't
blame him. It's not his Mull I was arrested in
Khartoum, and he didn't keep me in jail for
three years.'
12uPeopleaskmewhatI'mgoingtodOnowthat I'm
free," he said "Well, first I need to believe that
my nightmare is over and this freedom is not a
dream. And if it Is, don't wake me up."
114:.Guardkao Neirs End Media 2010
eirsi purAihad pin The Guardian. 00.V.01110
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The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
Level 1 • Pre-intermediate I Intermediate
0 Comprehension check
Choose the best answers to complete the Information.

1. Berrie comes torn ..

a.Sudan.
b.the United Arab Emirates.
c. Eritrea.

2. He sent a Facet•ook friend request to ...

a.a human trafficker
b.a human trafficker's wee.
c.an Italian prosecutor.
3 While Berhe was in prison in Sicily, the real human traMeRer was in
a.Sicily
b.Uganda.
c.the Un lied Arab Emirates.
4. Berrie spent .
a.one year
b. three years
14 years
in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Using the key wards

Use some of the key woods in task 2 to complete the sentences.

1 B e r h e w a s a _ rromEritrea.
2. His began when ii1vestigator5 in illy though! lie was Mered

In 2016, six police officus 'wont into a bar in Sudan to______________________him and take him
to Rome.
4. Serne always said he was_____________________of the Crime, but he was sent lo prison.
In 2019, ajudgeordered his _____________________from prison.
6. italy has now given him ___________________, a ad he lives in Palermo
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The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail

Level • Pre-intermediate I Intermediate

m Staying saf• on social media
a. Write one word in each gap to complete these rules for staying site on social media.
I Never share your p_________

2. Think before you p_____________something

3 Only accept friend requests from people you know p________

b, Write two or three more 'rules, Start your rules with some of the words below,

always never don'l make sure you

m Discussion
 Width social media sites do you Lise?
 How often do you post on then?

Whet do you do when sonrieone you don't know sends you a friend request?