Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
More than 24 hours have passed since Essex police were called to investigate a container truck with 39 dead bodies inside, including one victim believed to be a teenager. And while police have been tight-lipped, some new information trickled out on Thursday.
British media reported that all of the dead found in the truck were Chinese nationals, according to the BBC. The truck in which they were traveling was refrigerated. Temperatures in these types of trucks can get as low as -25 degrees Celcius, prompting some to speculate that the cooling system may have been turned on accidentally.
Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, said conditions for anyone inside the truck were “absolutely horrendous.”
Police discovered the bodies at 1:40 am local time on Wednesday at an industrial park in Grays.
Initial suspicions have been confirmed: The Chinese nationals were likely victims of human trafficking.
Shaun Sawyer, the UK’s National Police Chiefs Council lead for modern slavery and human trafficking, said that while UK police had prevented thousands of trafficking-related deaths, “tragically, for 39 people that didn’t work yesterday.”
Reports that the lorry was from Bulgaria have been proven incorrect: Turns out, the truck is believed to have entered the UK from Belgium.
A map provided by the BBC shows that all of the information provided by police on Wednesday about how the cargo arrived into the UK was incorrect. Meanwhile, local churches held candlelit vigils for the victims.
The trailer arrived in Purfleet on the River Thames from Zeebrugge in Belgium. A truck came to pick it up, and they left the port at Purfleet shortly after 01:05. The truck unit came from Northern Ireland.
The Bulgarian ministry of foreign affairs said that it was “highly unlikely” that the deceased were Bulgarians, and that the truck was registered in Bulgaria under the name of an Irish-owned company.
The Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price for the area where the bodies were found called for an international response to the deaths.
“We have partnerships in place but those efforts need to be rebooted, this is an international criminal world where many gangs are making lots of money and until states act collectively to tackle that it is going to continue,” she said.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was an “unimaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking”.
Unfortunately, the UK isn’t a stranger to these types of incidents: In 2000, 58 Chinese nationals were found dead in a lorry at Dover after suffocating to death. Elsewhere in Europe, back in 2015, the bodies of 71 people were found in an abandoned truck on an Austrian motorway. Police believed they were victims of a Bulgarian-Hungarian human trafficking ring.
So far, the only lead is a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland who drove the truck. He was arrested and is the main suspect into a murder investigation that has been launched over the incident. He has been identified as Mo Robinson from County Armagh.
Looks like the cargo 200 trucks that take the Russian terrorist invaders out of Ukraine and sends them HOME to Russia for GOOD .
Solomon Kupek just rename your name to your true Kike identity.
Some of the shiz you write makes me think your real name is Ceasar salad .
That’s why it’s there at the first place! Now you are working for free since you are FIRED from the troll squad.
Get over the Russians solomon kupek, you are pathetic broken record.
Russia will fall in my lifetime so all is great , have a great day stupid mike .
Also to bad you weren’t one of the corpses on that truck, not even your herpes riddled mother would miss you.
That was not herpes and she is better now .
The way you gripe about the Russians is characteristic of some Polish.
Polish is the same as a Russian in most of the globe. fat drunks
I dont. Those never was Ukrainians but Russians. So they should vote a borderchange after where those people choose.
DEnmark used that after WW1 and got half back, where the danes had been since 1864. It was and are a great succes. Today germans in germany helps germans in Denmark and vice versa.
The border is open so germans work here from germanay and vice versa too.
The low populated areas share firebrigade and ambulances as well.
Just moving people around, which belong there for several generations makes no sense.
Got a negative pathological obsession over Russia, huh? That kind of fixation is very psychologically and emotionally unhealthy. Do seek help, or resume your appropriate meds.
” The Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price for the area where the bodies were found called for an international response to the deaths.”
This is quite right of course and I demand that President Trump and Prime Minister immediately prepare to send troops and cruise missile attacks in order to punish the ‘fast freeze killers’ wherever they are found in Ireland, North and South :)
In fact the UN should declare a No Fly Zone over all of Ireland to be patrolled by US aircraft based in Britain and all Irish sea ports should be blockaded by the US navy.
Belgium is obviously complicit in this tragedy and will be sanctioned by President Trump and Prime Minister Johnson from the 1st November. Let them try and sell their Belgian chocolates then :)
I think the MP was actually hinting that the international community should attack England. That crazy plan might just work!
Please ask President Trump to avoid where I live for his drone attacks :)
That’d be likely even if he targeted you :)
Lol.
Well… Taking into consideration the comments you have posted on this forum, I think it’s fair to say the CIA already have a lock on your domicile as a high priority target! I strongly advise you to put a (Saudi?) Patriot system around your house!
I thought a Russian system would be better :)
Florian, is it true that someone in your govt. wanted to put a freeze on illegal immigrants? Somebody should search the govt. transcripts for a clue as to who did it.
I really did laugh at your brilliant comment, PZIVJ, it actually did bring tears to my eyes :)
The transcripts are now sealed for 100 years.
Funnily enough I have a theory of why the fridge trailer refrigerator motor was switched on. The trailer was put on the ferry ‘unaccompanied ‘ for the journey and its practice on ferries to turn off the trailer fridge diesel power and plug in an on ship power source. This is to prevent fumes on the car decks etc. IF a truck was connected to the trailer the loading staff would have asked the driver IF he wanted the refrigerator hooked up. As the trailer was unaccompanied the fridge would have been connected by default. That’s my theory anyway.
I don’t mind the chocolates, but don’t mess with our beer!
To bad solomon kupek no I mean toronto tonto wasn’t in that truck.
Sorry your break up with Leroy has you down , maybe you should ask putins chef for a raise .
What happened to the presumption of innocence…..
How come the truck loads of dead young Russian boys being shipped home from Ukraine don’t garner this type of attention , Oh yeah forgot not allowed to talk about that in peacetime right dikheads , well the mommies should but then they wont get the 200 poobles for there dead kid right , ok I got it .
China ready to launch missiles into uk or give them 30 gypsy’s as a good will gesture