UK prosecutors accused driver Maurice Robinson where 39 migrants died

UK prosecutors accused driver Maurice Robinson where 39 migrants died

Camión donde hallaron a las Víctimas

The driver of the truck in which 39 bodies were found (east of England),Maurice Robinson, appeared Monday by videoconference at a preliminary hearing before a British court, charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and other crimes. Prosecutors accused Maurice Robinson, a 25-year-old from Northern Ireland known as Mo, for being part of a “global network” that conspired in illegal migration on a massive scale. The subject drove the cabin of the vehicle attached to the trailer carrying a refrigeration chamber, in which the dead bodies of 31 men and 8 women were found in the early morning of Wednesday in an industrial complex in the English town of Grays. Robinson only identified himself and made no statement in a brief video appearance at a court in the city of Chelmsford, in the southeast of England. The defendant must appear on November 25 before another hearing to be held at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London.

In that next hearing, Robinson will answer for the crimes that are charged to him: 39 charges of homicide "of unknown persons", two of conspiracy to facilitate the trafficking of persons, a charge of money laundering and another crime of possession of illegal merchandise. In addition to the traffic mafia hypothesis, autopsies of the bodies are being carried out at the Chelmsford hospital. Agents work closely with the Vietnamese embassy in the United Kingdom, after suspecting that several citizens of that country could be among the victims found in the truck.

Robinson a bordo del camión

"This trade is a plague in the modern world," Interior Minister Priti Patel said in informing Parliament about the further investigation of murders in Britain since the 2005 extremist Islamist suicide bombings that killed 52 people in London. “This is one of the most urgent issues for the United Kingdom, but also for all our international partners. We must be ruthless now in our response, ”he said. The case has shed new light on the extreme dangers faced by illegal migrants seeking a better life. Hundreds of people from poor and troubled regions of Africa and Asia have died every year in the last decade trying to reach Europe. The investigation is further complicated because migrants who place their welfare in the hands of smugglers often receive false identity documents.