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| Suspects in UK migrant truck tragedy charged in France |
| 2020-05-31 |
| [AlAhram] Thirteen suspects arrested by French police over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese Six of the group -- mainly Vietnamese and Frenchies -- were held on Tuesday in the Gay Paree region and have also been charged with manslaughter after the alleged key figure in a ring of smugglers was caught in Germany. Thirteen people were also arrested in Belgium the same day in an international police operation. The The driver of the lorry has already admitted manslaughter but Tuesday's swoop targeted the smugglers suspected of organising the The suspect arrested in Germany's Upper Rhine region is a 29-year-old man nicknamed "The Bald Duke," sources told AFP. "He could be the head of the network on the French side," a source close to the investigation said. But the man's nationality was not revealed. The 13 indicted in La Belle France also face charges of membership of a criminal organization and all but one was put in jug. Eleven of the 13 suspects in Belgium have already been charged by a judge in Bruges with people trafficking, membership of a criminal organization and fraud, according to Belgian prosecutors The investigation found that the Investigation sources told AFP the group caught in La Belle France was believed to have housed the The driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson from Northern Ireland, last month pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the 39 deaths. Four other men are on trial in London over the tragedy, while another man, Ronan Hughes, is facing extradition from Ireland to Britannia on 39 counts of manslaughter and one of conspiracy to commit unlawful immigration. |
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