Italian police arrest a man who allegedly provided the freight truck used to smuggle 39 Vietnamese migrants into the UK.
Italian police have arrested a man who is the subject of an international arrest warrant from the UK for the manslaughter of 39 people who were being smuggled into Britain in the back of a refrigerated truck.The bodies of 39 Vietnamese migrants were found in the back of a truck in the UK in 2019
The 28-year-old Romanian man is accused of supplying the truck used to smuggle the migrants into the UKThe 28-year-old Romanian man, Stefan Damian Dragos, allegedly provided the truck which was used to smuggle the group of Vietnamese migrants.He was arrested in the town of Cinisello Balsamo, north of Milan, but police gave no further details.
All 39 migrants were found dead in a freight container on the back of the vehicle in the town of Greys in October 2019.before both ending up on the grounds of the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, 40 kilometres east of London on the River Thames. The truck is believed to have travelled from Northern Ireland to Dublin, where it took a ferry to Holyhead in Wales last Sunday before picking up the trailer at the dockside in England.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov confirmed the red Scania truck was registered in Bulgaria in 2017, but had not entered Bulgarian territory since.
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