Ghent The members of a mensensmokkelbende more than a hundred operations are performed for migrants to Europe and the United Kingdom, are this morning in Ghent and sentenced to long prison sentences. The gang left in Flanders, tiny storage rooms build in vehicles. It was mainly vans, even a migrant is discovered under the hood of a car.
The gang smuggled people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Vietnam to Europe. Afterwards, the migrants via Bulgaria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. It was very well organised transport with the concerned smugglers across several countries. For a full range paid transmigranten the gang of 10,000 euros. For the perilous journey from France or Belgium to England had each passenger 1.300 euro to pay. In total, 110 transports in the picture, of which 50 were intercepted.
it was the modus operandi of the smugglers. They were in Flanders in the vehicles tiny storage spaces to build as much as possible migrants, to pile up — and the latter can be taken literally. Among other garagisten from Zelzate and Hamme were paid to make secret compartments in vans to build so that they are unseen migrants could carry. That happened with a false door at the back or an opening in the cargo space, including a narrow bucket was created in which people are crammed. The police in Calais even discovered a migrant hiding under the hood of a Nissan Serena. To give him a little space to give, had the garagisten the spare wheel, the radiator and the ventilation is removed. The man had a gap of 74 cm high, 63 cm long and 35 cm wide. His body hit the hot engine block.
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