Three years after the death of 53 migrants in an overheated truck in the US state of Texas, two tractors were sentenced to life sentence or 83 years in prison.
The two men were guilty of a jury of transport from foreigners in the United States in March with death, serious physical injury and the danger of the life of others. The punishment was now announced for the day exactly three years after the death of the 53 migrants from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
American Minister of Justice: “Profit of human suffering”
These criminals will spend the rest of their lives in prison because they have made the cruel decision to take advantage of human suffering, “said the American Minister of Justice Pam Bondi on Friday.” Today’s judgments are a strong message of human smugglers everywhere: we will not rest until you sit behind bars. “
The discovery of the corpses in the fully overheated truck near San Antonio on 27 June 2022 had caused international horror. Six children and a pregnant woman were among the victims. Eleven people survived.
Awake memories of dead migrants in Parndorf
In a similarly saved case, in Australia in August 2015, the bodies 71 suffocated refugees found in a cooling truck in a bay on the Ostautobahn (A4) near Parndorf in Burgenland. In the course of the investigation, the gang, mainly Bulgarians, and their Afghan boss were arrested and charged in Hungary. The four most important defendants received life.
Source: Krone
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