Published : 16-04-2022
Austrian police have seized a semi-trailer truck with 54 migrants onboard, including Palestinians and Syrians.
The truck was parked in Lower Austria in the municipality of Brisbam, after a 9-hour continuous journey from Serbia.
On Friday, the 46-year-old Polish driver stopped the truck to by water. Sometime later, the refugees started to make a fuss as they were left trapped inside the vehicle under scorching sunbeams for over one hour. The driver was arrested while the migrants were transferred to a shaded place pending asylum and international protection procedures.
Preliminary investigation by the criminal police of Lower Austria found out that the migrants paid some 3,000 Euros each to be transferred from a camp in Serbia to Austria after they climbed over the barbed wire along the Serbian-Hungarian border.
Austrian police have seized a semi-trailer truck with 54 migrants onboard, including Palestinians and Syrians.
The truck was parked in Lower Austria in the municipality of Brisbam, after a 9-hour continuous journey from Serbia.
On Friday, the 46-year-old Polish driver stopped the truck to by water. Sometime later, the refugees started to make a fuss as they were left trapped inside the vehicle under scorching sunbeams for over one hour. The driver was arrested while the migrants were transferred to a shaded place pending asylum and international protection procedures.
Preliminary investigation by the criminal police of Lower Austria found out that the migrants paid some 3,000 Euros each to be transferred from a camp in Serbia to Austria after they climbed over the barbed wire along the Serbian-Hungarian border.
