Human trafficking van burst into flames while Hungarian police inspected it – PHOTOS
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The beginning of March was jam-packed with action for the Hungarian police. They have managed to catch several human traffickers and illegal migrants near the Hungarian borders. Unfortunately, in one case, the vehicle the police have been inspecting burst up in flames.
According to the Police, in the early hours of the 2nd of March, the highway police subdivision of the Tolna county Police Headquarters stopped a van on the M9 highway’s Bács-Kiskun county section. The police immediately started to inspect the vehicle and interrogate the Hungarian driver.
Upon inspecting the van, the Hungarian police have found nine people in the vehicle’s enclosed hold.
According to suspicion, a couple from Budapest – a 19-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman – wanted to smuggle the migrants to Western Europe. The police have detained the two and the Department of Migration of the Bács-Kiskun county Police Headquarters ordered an investigation for well-founded suspicion on people smuggling.
During the investigation, the vehicle’s engine compartment caught on fire and soon enveloped the entire vehicle.
Fortunately, nobody got injured, but the police had to call the firefighters to stop the blazing inferno. The nine people found in the back of the van said that they were Syrian, however, they were unable to provide evidence to support their claim, nor they were able to certify their stay in Hungary. For the above reasons, the police have escorted them back to the temporary border camps. Recently, the Strasbourg court stated that Hungary has to pay compensation for the unmanly conditions of these camps to those who were kept there.
