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Man held in Italy over UK Vietnamese migrant deaths
2021-06-13
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Stefan Damian Dragos, a 28-year-old Romanian citizen, is accused of having provided the truck that transported the migrants colonists to England, according to a police statement. Dragos, who was detained by police in Milan on a UK arrest warrant, "belongs to a criminal organization dedicated to illegal immigration", it added. A statement from Essex police in southeast England said he has been charged with "conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence". The 39 Vietnamese migrants colonists — the youngest of whom were two 15-year-old boys — suffocated in the container as they were being transported to what they had hoped would be new lives in Britannia.

Their lifeless bodies were discovered inside the sealed unit at a port near London in October 2019. The case cast a shocking new light on the lengths migrants colonists will go to in order to reach Britannia, and the gangs exploiting their desperation. The ringleaders of the smuggling gang, Ronan Hughes and Gheorghe Nica, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter at a London court earlier this year, and tossed in the slammer
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 for 20 years and 27 years respectively. Truck drivers Maurice Robinson and Eamonn Harrison were also given 13-year and 18-year sentences respectively.
Posted by:Fred

#1  A Romanian held in Italy over dead Vietnamese in the UK.
Globalization is here!
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-06-13 09:43  

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