Source: Xinhua Net
Brussels, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Bruges District Court in Belgium issued a judgment on January 19, sentencing 20 accomplices in the 2019 Essex County Truck Massacre in the United Kingdom to prison terms ranging from 1 to 15 years. Among them, The vietnamese citizen Who received the heaviest sentence, Wu Van Hong, was also fined 920,000 euros, and another 2.3 million euros of property was confiscated.
On 23 October 2019, British police found 39 bodies in a container truck in an industrial park in Essex, south-east England, and later confirmed that the victims were all Vietnamese citizens. The survey found that the containers came from Belgium.
Since then, Belgian police have found two dens in the Anderlech District where the illegal immigrants were hiding. In May 2020, police successfully dismantled a smuggling gang led by Wu Wenhong, which transported at least 130 illegal migrants to Britain.
Through multinational cooperation, some important members of this gang that has long used the English Channel to smuggle illegal immigrants and make huge profits have been arrested one after another. In January 2021, the UK sentenced four people involved in the case to prison terms ranging from 13 years and 4 months to 27 years. In addition, at least four suspects involved in the case were sentenced in Vietnam in September 2020 for "planning and conducting illegal immigration agencies."
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