The lack of windows in the hold had already made air scarce for the tightly packed migrants.
Bad memories of the tragedy in Parndorf were now awakened when Bundesheer soldiers stopped a white van with Hungarian number plates at Nikitsch in Burgenland. 22 refugees were crammed into the windowless hold of the vehicle. The migrants gasped when the doors were first opened during the detention. The van’s unscrupulous driver, it turned out, had been on the road with the 22 men for seven uninterrupted hours. When they were finally apprehended in Burgenland, the mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees were already dehydrated and completely exhausted.
Number of arrests exploded this year
The Serbian smuggler was arrested. It probably wasn’t his first trip – and he probably isn’t the only people smuggler making a profit from the suffering of others. The number of arrests in Burgenland has exploded this year. More than 15,000 migrants have been encountered so far. A multiple of last year. In the same period of 2021, there were only 3,000 refugees. And the end of the wave is far from in sight. On the contrary, the number is likely to continue to rise in the coming months.
Source: Krone
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