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Horror truck in London: the story of a miracle man found in France

2020-08-04T07:49:18.447Z


Police interviewed a Vietnamese migrant who should have boarded the truck in which 39 of his compatriots perished in oc


At 58, Van Thanh N. is miraculous in the horror truck. When investigators from the Central Office for the Repression of Immigration and the Employment of Untitled Foreigners (OCRIEST) found him at the Coquelles detention center (Pas-de-Calais) a month after the tragedy in which perished 39 of his compatriots last October, this clandestine coward pitifully: "These events scared me, I really want to return to Vietnam and I would not try to go to England again." "

By investigating the route of the mass grave truck in France, the police made the connection with another failed attempt of migrants to cross to England four days earlier. On October 18, 2019, around 6 p.m., a British driver was checked by police at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel at the wheel of a Ford van with 13 Vietnamese undocumented migrants hidden in the back. Among them, Van Thanh N.

The driver claims that he had "gone to play golf" in the north of France and that he was unaware of the presence of these illegals in his vehicle, who would have ridden without his knowledge ...

"I think I am alive thanks to the fact that I was put in detention"

The driver is then left free, as are most of the 13 migrants, some of whom have declared themselves to be minors. Only three - the oldest - are placed in a detention center in Coquelles. And only Van Thanh N. was still there a month after this failed trip. An administrative hassle that will prove to be a blessing. Because the investigators discovered that several released migrants tried their luck again on the 22nd and thus appear on the list of the 39 dead passengers of the horror truck.

Analyzes of six phones found in the refrigerated truck show that several victims were located in the small town of Dohem (Pas-de-Calais) on October 18, like the driver of the Ford who pretended to play golf. After the failure of the crossing, they returned to the Paris region and were then detected again in Bierne, where the death truck was loaded, on October 22.

"Of the 13 people of which I am part, from what I was able to learn, eleven died in the lorry next to London," Van Thanh N. explains to the police. I think I am alive because I have been detained. If I had not applied for a visa […], I would probably have died as well. "

In search of a "better life"

Originally from Quang Binh province like many of his deceased compatriots, the survivor left Vietnam in 2015 in search of a “better life” via Russia and first settled in the Netherlands. His asylum application having been refused, he went to France in 2018 where he found small jobs as a cook before being offered ... to cultivate cannabis in a small village near Montargis (Loiret) by an illicit Vietnamese network. “Everything was isolated. We started to grow cuttings but after a few days they died. My role being to take care of the small cuttings, I did not earn any money ”, relates the migrant to the investigators.

In October 2019, Van Thanh N. ended up contacting a Vietnamese smuggler in the sector by phone and informing him of his desire to join the United Kingdom. This one would have come to seek it in the XIIIe district of Paris before depositing it in a hideout in the Paris region. On October 18, he received the order with another illegal immigrant to go to Gare du Nord where a taxi was waiting for them. “He took us 20 km from Calais, on a path in the countryside. We turned into a street where there were trees and hangars. "

"We were not allowed to speak"

There, a van awaits them, the rear doors open. According to Van Thanh N.'s account, seven Vietnamese men are already inside, soon joined by "three very young girls". The vehicle took the direction of the Channel Tunnel and one of the illegals asked the others to "cut their cell phones and take out the SIM cards".

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“We were not allowed to speak,” Van Thanh N. recounts […] Once in England, they would come to get me to give me the procedure and pay for my passage. My family back home had to pay. If they didn't have enough money, I had to work for them [the network, editor's note] to pay for my passage. "

But the convoy is intercepted before arriving at its destination and sent back to France. Four days later, almost all of the rejected passengers boarded the horror truck, including Dinh Binh, a teenager barely 15 years old ...

Source: leparis

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