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At about 1:40 local time on October 23, Essex, UK (Essex) found 39 bodies in a semi-trailer truck. The 25-year-old Northern Ireland driver Mo Robinson Mo Robinson) was subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder.
Essex police confirmed on the 24th that the deceased were “Chinese nationals” (Chinese nationals), of which 8 were female. The rest are male.
BBC and ITV and other British media have disclosed the survey’s progress, saying that the 39 dead in the truck are all Chinese, including 38 adults and a teenager. According to ITV, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has begun to verify the identity of the deceased in the truck and is unable to provide more information at present.
The Northern Ireland police raided two homes, and the UK National Crime Investigation Bureau said it was trying to identify “organized criminal groups that might be involved.”
25-year-old Northern Ireland driver Mo Robinson Image Source: Facebook
After further investigation by the local police, the car departed from the port city of Zeebrugge in the northwestern part of Belgium on Tuesday afternoon (Zeebrugge) Arrive in Essex on Wednesday morning at the (Purfleet) before entering the city of Thurrock.
According to ITV, the police earlierThe truck may have come from Bulgaria, but the police later believed that the truck entered Belgium from Belgium.
A spokesman for the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the truck was registered in Bulgaria on behalf of a company owned by an Irish citizen.
The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office stated that they have filed an investigation. A spokesperson said that it is not clear when the victim was put into the container, and it is not clear whether this happened in Belgium.
Speaker Eric Van Duis(Eric Van Duyse) said, “We don’t know that trucks are waiting in Belgium. How long, maybe a few hours or a few days.”
British Prime Minister Johnson said that this is an “unimaginable tragedy, really heartbreaking.” At present, Belgium and the United Kingdom have started a cooperative investigation on the case.
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Zebrugge Port CEO Cohens (Joachim Coens) told the Flemish VRT TV channel that people are unlikely to be loaded Into the container. “The reefer container in the port area is completely sealed.” “The seal will be checked during the inspection and the license plate will be checked. The driver will also be inspected by the camera.” The goods can only be loaded onto the ferry after these inspections are completed.
The British Road Transport Association CEO Richard Burnett (Richard Burnett) said that the temperature of the refrigerated truck may As low as minus 25 degrees Celsius. Anyone staying inside, the conditions are “very terrible.”
When the “death truck” was discovered, some local media had linked the matter to smuggling. Although it is suffering from Brexit, the UK is still an ideal destination for illegal immigrants. Last week, the British border security forces intercepted 13 people who tried to take the boat to the UK through the English Channel.
The British “Daily Telegraph” has restored the roadmap for trucks and containers:
“Death Truck” moving route (blue line: truck moving route; red line: container moving route) Source: British “Daily Telegraph”
Varna
The traction part of the truck involved was registered in Varna, Bulgaria. This coastal city of the Black Sea has a deep relationship with several Irish Republican gangs and is one of the passing points of cigarette smuggling.
2. Porta Town
The arrested driver Robinson lives in a village near the town of Porta, Ama County, Northern Ireland.
3. Dublin
The towed part of the truck was thought to have boarded a ferry from Dublin to Wales, where the vehicle was not yet loaded.
4. Holliday
The towed part of the truck arrived in Holliday, Wales on October 19, and then headed to Essex. It is unclear why the truck arrived in the UK four days before loading the box.
5. Zeebrugge
The container ship carrying the victim is from Zeebrugge, Belgium. For immigrants, this is a “good-going” port city. The port chief said that they will find immigrants who attempt to sneak every day.
6. Pfleet
The container containing the victim arrived at the Beverly Dock in Essex, and Robinson then loaded the car.
The Guardian reported that as the French authorities tightened control over Calais, more and more illegal immigrants sought to travel from northern Belgium to the UK. In the past three years, the British authorities have repeatedly warned that the number of people smuggling through Belgium is increasing.
In the 2016 threat assessment, border force officials emphasized that Zeebrugge was a key landing point for immigrants entering the UK. Three years ago, some people also warned that the smuggling gang would turn to a less busy British port, such as the Peverit truck passing by this incident.
Now, as the borders use technical means to strengthen security checks, the smuggling route in the English Channel has been basically blocked, and the choice of illegal smuggling is becoming more limited and costly.
In the past 12 months, incidents of entering the UK through high-risk unconventional channels have increased, including container trucks, heavy trucks, refrigerated trucks, and small vessels. These vehicles have a very high threat to personal safety.
Nearly 20 years ago, there was a “Dover tragedy” involving illegal immigrants in China.
On June 19, 2000, Customs officers in Dover, England, found 60 Chinese illegal immigrants in a container truck container. On the way to Dover Port, the vents of the container were closed, causing 58 people to be suffocated and only two survived. At that time, the case attracted global attention, and many snakeheads who organized the smuggling were sentenced.
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