Human trafficking van burst into flames while Hungarian police inspected it – PHOTOS
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.
At a different border of Hungary, the police have managed to catch two more human traffickers red-handed. In Győr-Moson-Sopron county at the Western border of Hungary, the authorities stopped two acts of people smuggling – Police reported.
In the morning on the 2nd of March, a Romanian truck driver informed the Hungarian police about two migrants hidden in a trailer. The police launched the action at a gas station at the 119th km stone of the M1 highway.
The police have managed to detain the two migrants, who stated that they were Afghan, but were unable to produce any identification or certification of their stay in Hungary.
Later that day, the police from Győr-Moson-Sopron county inspected a van on the M1 highway with a Slovenian license plate thanks to the intelligence of the Department of Migration of the Csongrád-Csanád County Police Headquarters.
Apart from the Serbian driver and his Serbian partner, the police have found six other people, who said that they were Indian citizens.
The situation was much the same, the migrant had no papers of any kind and the people smugglers were detained.
The police have launched a procedure against the two Serbian men for human trafficking, while the eight migrants after their interrogation – and according to current Hungarian law – were taken to temporary border camps for further interrogation and possible identification.
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Source: Police.hu