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Details of the British container case where did the truck and container come from?

Original title: details of the British container case exposed: trucks and containers do not enter together

According to the Chinese website of the BBC, the British police found more new clues on the frozen container case exposed in the suburbs of London, and preliminarily confirmed that the container involved and the truck trailer did not enter the country together. As the container was from Belgium, the Belgian authorities also announced their involvement in the investigation.

Where do trucks and containers come from?

According to the news at the time of the crime, trucks and containers came from Bulgaria and entered the UK from hollyhead port, Wales. However, according to the latest survey, the container was transported from Zeebrugge port in Belgium to the Thames estuary port in the east of London, and was taken away in the early morning of October 23 local time.

In the early morning of October 23 local time, British police found 39 bodies in a truck container in Essex. British media said that according to preliminary indications, the dead included a teenager. The driver has been arrested.

Whether the homicide involved crimes such as human smuggling remains to be investigated. Essex County Police Department said that the truck had been driven to a wharf warehouse near the crime scene in order to identify the 39 dead in the container in an environment where the dignity of the dead was protected.

Mo Robinson, a 25-year-old northern Irishman who was the driver of the truck trailer involved, continues to be detained by the Essex County Police Department on suspicion of murder, while the Northern Irish police sent officers to search two locations. The Belgian authorities also announced their involvement in the investigation.

British Prime Minister Johnson said he was "shocked" by the case and said that the people behind it must be traced to the end.

It is reported that the Essex County homicide is reminiscent of the Dover port truck homicide in June 2000. At that time, the port authorities found 58 bodies on a container truck entering Britain from Dover port, and two others survived. The Dutch container truck driver was arrested and sentenced to 10 and a half years' imprisonment by the Dutch court for manslaughter in 2005.

What are the details of the crime?

British police agents revealed that the container involved landed at the purfleet ferry terminal 33 kilometers east of London at 0:30 British daylight time on the 23rd. There is a regular cargo ferry to and from zebrukh, which takes 9 to 12 hours one way.

The trailer from Northern Ireland picked up the container and left the port at 1:05 on the same day, and then drove to the watergrad Industrial Park in grays town on the east side of the wharf. About 35 minutes later, the ambulance arrived and exposed the murder. Essex County police said one of the 39 dead was a minor.

As of the evening of the 23rd local time, Northern Ireland police searched two houses in Amar County, where truck driver Robinson lives. Essex County Police Deputy Chief Superintendent mills said that identifying the dead is a current priority, but I'm afraid it will take a long time. The National Crime Investigation Agency (NCA) confirmed that it had sent personnel to identify the remains and investigate whether the case involved organized crime.

In the early morning of October 23 local time, British police found 39 bodies in a truck container in Essex. British media said that according to preliminary indications, the dead included a teenager.

Van der Iser, spokesman of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's office, said that for example, it is still unknown how long the container has stayed in Belgium, and the country will also carry out an investigation. Bulgarian authorities confirmed that the truck was licensed in the country and the owner was a company owned by citizens of the Republic of Ireland. Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov said that after the truck was licensed in 2017, it never entered the country again. A spokesman for the Bulgarian foreign ministry said there was little chance that the dead came from that country.

Bulgaria, located in the Balkans, has joined the EU since 2007. The Bulgarian Road Transport Association pointed out that it is very common for foreign trucks to license locally due to economic incentives.

How many immigrants died on the way to Britain?

After the outbreak of the Mediterranean migration crisis in 2014, the United Nations began to track and record the number of deaths of immigrants in the process of transportation. Since then, five suspected immigrants have been found dead on trucks entering the UK:

In August 2014, a shipping container containing 35 Afghan immigrants was found at Tilbury Wharf in Essex County, and one of them died.

In November 2015, a wooden box from Italy was found in a warehouse in Branston village, Staffordshire, in which two immigrants died.

In April 2016, an 18-year-old immigrant was crushed to death while trying to climb to the bottom of a truck in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

In October 2016, after a truck entering from France arrived in Kent, a body was found on the truck.

Such deaths had not never occurred before the United Nations began tracking them. In 2015, a truck was abandoned beside a highway in Austria. 71 immigrant bodies were found on the truck. The police believe that the case is related to a transnational human trafficking gang between Bulgaria and Hungary.