Primary, secondary defendants in migrant truck deaths case refuse to testify in court
Kecskemét, 2017. június 21. A "parndorfi ügyként" elhíresült, 71 ember halálát okozó eset tárgyalása a Kecskeméti Törvényszéken 2017. június 21-én. A Bács-Kiskun Megyei Fõügyészség embercsempészés és más bûncselekmények miatt emelt vádat 1 afgán, 9 bolgár, illetve 1 bolgár és libanoni, kettõs állampolgárságú férfi ellen 2017 májusa elején. A vád szerint a bûnszervezet tagjai 2015. augusztus 26-án hajnalban 71 embert zártak be egy belülrõl nem nyitható, sötét, szellõzés nélküli hûtõkamionba. A Kecskemétrõl a határra tartó hûtõkocsiban 59 férfi, 8 nõ és 4 gyermek az indulástól számított három órán belül, még magyar területen, gyötrelmes körülmények között megfulladt. MTI Fotó: Ujvári Sándor
The primary and secondary defendants in the case of 71 dead migrants found abandoned in a truck on an Austrian motorway in 2015 have refused to testify at their trial currently ongoing in Kecskemét, in central Hungary.
The primary defendant on Thursday told the court that he had read his indictment and knows “which parts of it are correct and which are not”. The suspected human smuggler said he wanted to hear the testimonies of the other defendants before saying anything.
The secondary defendant also refused to testify. In earlier statements he had confessed to the charge of human smuggling but not the murder charges.
The trial got under way on Wednesday. Charges were raised against one Afghan citizen, 9 Bulgarians, and one Bulgarian and Lebanese man holding dual citizenship for human smuggling and other crimes by the Bács-Kiskun County Chief Prosecutor’s Office in early May.
According to the charges, altogether 1,200 people were transported illegally to western Europe between February 2015 and August of the same year on 31 occasions in sealed and crowded lorry compartments, an earlier statement by the court said.
Prosecutors are seeking life sentences in the case of four suspects and fixed-term imprisonment and expulsion from Hungary in the case of seven.
Photo: MTI
Source: MTI
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