Six young Afghans, including four minors, were rescued by the carabinieri after being discovered traveling crammed into an articulated lorry coming from Serbia, among dozens of tires, stopped in Caponago (Monza).
They had been traveling for eight months to arrive in Serbia, at the Bogovadja refugee camp.
The alarm was raised - last Thursday evening, but the news broke out now - was the driver of the vehicle, a Macedonian citizen, who while he was waiting to unload in an industrial area heard rumors coming from inside the truck.
The carabinieri and the 118 rescuers intervened on the spot.
The two adults were included in the Sprar, the protection system for asylum seekers and refugees, while the four minors were accompanied to shelters at the request of the Milan Juvenile Court.
The investigations will now have to ascertain the network that organized their trip.
The refugees had left, as mentioned eight months ago, alone, close to each other following the Balkan route, to reach Europe.
Among them, three brothers of 13,14 and 16 years and another minor rescued together with two twenty-year-olds inside the truck with a trailer dedicated to transporting tires, when the driver stopped in the parking lot of a company in Caponago (Monza ), to download.
To the police the kids, as well as the two adults, in good health despite being tried by four days of travel lying on piles of tires that almost lapped the canvas ceiling of the truck, did not want to tell much.
Initially they said they were headed to a refugee camp in Serbia, from where the truck left and would return, but as the hours go by (they had plastic cards of that same camp hidden in their backpacks) it seems more credible than their destination. could be a country of the Union.
Who organized their trip is still being examined.
To make sure that no one was injured or trapped in the tires, the military waited three hours for all the heavy vehicle to be emptied.
According to the stories of various transporters traveling on the same routes, it would not be uncommon to find remains of food and empty bottles once the trucks have been emptied, a sign that perhaps there is a real 'trafficking' to introduce foreign citizens to Europe using transport. of the goods.
