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At present, truck drivers have been arrested for murder and human trafficking. Sky News learned that the truck driver was from Ama County, Northern Ireland, 25 years old, named Mo Robinson (Mo Robinson) The police conducted a search on their two addresses on the 23rd. The Daily Telegraph reported that sources close to the case investigation said that Robinson was “unlikely” aware of the plan for cross-border trafficking.
The official website of the Essex police in the United Kingdom issued a statement on the 24th that 39 bodies found in a British truck on October 23 were confirmed to be adults, “(These people) are considered Chinese citizens, including 8 women and 31 men. The overseas network quoted the British “Daily Mail” on the 24th news that they had stayed in the container at minus 25 degrees for at least 15 hours.
According to the latest news from the Essex County Police, the method of landing from the county of BasilThe hospital was granted an extended arrest warrant and will extend the detention of the 25-year-old northern love man and truck driver Mo Robinson for 24 hours. The latter was arrested on suspicion of murder on the 23rd.
What’s New
Chinese Embassy: Staff have arrived in the local area
According to the Chinese Embassy in the UK, the embassy staff has arrived in Essex. The British police said they are verifying the identity of 39 victims. It is not certain that the victims are Chinese nationals.
United Nations Secretary-General Guterres
Guterres made a statement on social media Twitter, deeply shocked and saddened by the incident, expressed his deepest condolences to all those who lost their loved ones, and stressed the need to bring the perpetrators to justice quickly.
British Prime Minister Johnson: Shocked, to bring traffickers to justice
Reuters reported on October 24 that Johnson accepted a question from the British parliament on Wednesday that he should “hunt the traffickers” and call the crime that killed 39 people “stunning”, calling it An “unimaginable tragedy is heartbreaking.”
Global Times – Global Network reporter asked the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s Insurance Center, and the response received is verifying the information ahead, and there is no news that can be released.
Death Truck Route Disclosure
The police believe that the containerDeparting from Zeebrugge port in Belgium on Tuesday, the news was broken until the container appeared in Pulvert, Essex.
The truck driver is thought to be departing from Northern Ireland, heading to Dublin, then taking the ferry to Holliday in North Wales and finally arriving in Grees.
At 1:05 am on the 23rd, the truck drove to Essex, left Pulvert with a container, and then sailed to Grees. The surveillance video showed that the truck was heading for the industrial park a few minutes before the body was found.
The United Kingdom carries 39 Chinese heritage trucks or is smuggled into the car for more than four days
A lot of mysteries to be solved
Who are these 39 people?
According to The New York Times, Essex County Deputy Chief Sergeant Pippa Mills said on the 23rd that since the victim did not carry the documents, it may be a “long process” from where the forensic doctors have Work has begun on determining the identity of the victim.
How did they come to the UK?
Preliminary results of the Belgian police investigation revealed that the container containing 39 victims was on Tuesday (22nd) 2:49 PM Arrived in the port of Zeebrugge, and left the port later in the afternoon to take the ferry to the UK.
Who is behind the scenes?
Police have arrested truck drivers, and Northern Ireland police raided three homes. The UK National Crime Investigation Bureau said it is currently working to identify “organized criminal groups that may be involved.”
The British corpse 39-person truck finally monitors exposure. It has entered the UK four days ago
The vehicle came from Bulgaria. The police arrested the driver and launched a murder investigation. The death was suspected of freezing or suffocating.
The police said that the truck involved was from Bulgaria and arrived here on the 19th through the Holliday area.
The Chief Superintendent Andrew Marina (Mariner) said, “This is a tragic event, many people have lost their lives. We are working on Investigate to determine what happened.
“We are identifying the identity of the victim, but I expect this may be a long process.”
Car driver Mo Robinson Source: Sky News
At present, truck drivers have been arrested for murder and human trafficking. Sky News learned that the truck driver was from Ama County, Northern Ireland, 25 years old, named Mo Robinson (Mo Robinson) The police conducted a search on their two addresses on the 23rd. The Daily Telegraph reported that sources close to the case investigation said that Robinson was “unlikely” aware of the plan for cross-border trafficking.
The Daily Mail said the police were investigating whether the deceased was trafficked to the UK by a criminal gang from Northern Ireland and then sold them as slaves to nail shops, brothels, massage parlours, restaurants, etc. The police have now raided three properties in Northern Ireland.
When the container truck carrying the stowaway’s body was leaving the industrial park, the police bowed their heads.
The British Road Transport Association CEO Richard Burnett said that the temperature of the truck’s container can quickly drop to minus 25 degrees, and soon the passengers in the train can die, of course, These people in the carriage may also die because of suffocation. The Daily Mail stated that the 39 Chinese people were slowly freezing in the “terrible environment.”
Bernette also revealed that the temperature control facilities of the cargo box are installed outside the truck, and the driver can control the temperature, which can not help but make people think.
A number of fatal cases have occurred in Europe in recent years, and a large number of immigrants have been found dead in containers.
On June 18, 2000, 60 Chinese illegal immigrants attempted to sneak into the UK. They hid in a cargo truck with tomatoes and went to the British port city of Dover. As the trucks were so airtight, 58 stowaways suffocated and died in trucks, and the other two survived.
2014: An Afghan immigrant was found dead at the Tibury Pier in Essex. In a container, 34 Afghans survived.
2015: In a warehouse in Branston, Staffordshire, two immigrants were found dead in wooden crates. This crates were sent from Italy in containers.
In the summer of 2015, four smugglers were sentenced to life imprisonment for 71 immigrants who were found dead in a van abandoned in Austria.
2016: An 18-year-old immigrant was crushed under a truck in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
2016: A corpse was found behind a lorry in Kent, which departed from France.
Why the tragedy happens repeatedly
The UK has long been a destination for illegal immigrants, and this tragedy has once again triggered concerns about human trafficking crimes and border security reviews across the English Channel.
The BBC reported that since the French authorities closed the refugee camp in Calais three years ago, the security measures in the Dover and the Channel Tunnel have been strengthened, but the smugglers are increasingly turning to other routes. .
Truck drivers who frequently travel to and from the British border have noticed that the tactics of smuggling gangs are changing. They say that smuggling gangs are getting “weak” stowaways from a farther place to cope with the entry. Security checks, but they also put them at a higher risk.
The report said that the UK Border Agency deployed normalized sniffer dogs and carbon dioxide detection equipment at large ports such as Dover to discover stowaways hiding in incoming trucks and containers, but in the port of Pulvert. In such a less busy place, the related deployment will be much weaker.
Location location of the event
At the same time, smuggling gangs are also using more dangerous methods to transport stowaways.
Containers that are being hauled by trucks have become the most common form. More and more commercial shipping containers are used by smuggling gangs, and sometimes they even use reefer containers found in this Essex county.
For stowaways, they take huge risks, but they have to pay more for it.
According to The New York Times, Sutterbil Singh, chief executive of the UK charity and immigration welfare committee, which focuses on immigrant rights, said in a statement: “The ultimate responsibility for these deaths lies with government policy. It deliberately closed the safe and legal passage into the UK.” He said, “People are always moving, they are always moving, and they will continue to migrate in the future. No one should risk their lives to do so.”
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