Middle of the night: smugglers abandon family with baby at rest area in Bavaria

Created: 05/12/2022 15:03

By: Katarina Amtmann

A truck driver abandoned a family with a baby at a rest area in Bavaria in the middle of the night (symbolic image).

© IMAGO / Olaf Döring

A truck driver took a family with an 11-month-old baby in the back of the truck for days.

Then, in the middle of the night, he suddenly dumped her in Bavaria.

Kiefersfelden – A family with a baby was abandoned at the Autobahn rest area near Kiefersfelden (Rosenheim district) on Saturday night.

The federal police reported this in a press release on December 5th.

The unknown truck driver is now under investigation.

Family with eleven-month-old child for days on the loading area - abandoned at a rest stop in Bavaria

According to the press release, a truck driver is said to have carried the family with an eleven-month-old baby in the back of his trailer for days.

In the night from Friday to Saturday (December 3rd) he apparently abandoned them at the rest area.

The migrants stood around there for a long time and made a disoriented impression, which is why witnesses called the federal police for help.

The officers took the two adults and the child into custody.

"In the meantime, the investigations are directed against the unknown smuggler, who is responsible for the extremely dangerous transport and the dropping off at night," the press release continues.

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Truck driver leaves family with baby at rest area in Kiefersfelden

According to the first findings of the federal police, the truck driver asked the family at the Inntal Ost rest area "suddenly in the middle of the night to leave the loading area." He then drove away with his white tractor and the trailer with a dark tarpaulin and took the three people left behind.

“Obviously he never gave them back their passports, which he is said to have taken from them before the start of the journey.

In any case, the 25-year-old woman and the 29-year-old man could no longer identify themselves to the federal police officers," the police said.

They were taken to the federal police station in Rosenheim and initially cared for there.

According to their own statements, they come from Turkey.

Her escape took her via Serbia to Bosnia.

In Zagreb, they confided in the smuggler, who took them on the back of the truck for four days.

They had to hand over their papers to him.

"He tore them up and destroyed them," it said.

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The two could not or did not want to give any further information about the driver or the truck.

When asked, they explained that protection or asylum in Germany was not important to them, so they were forwarded to the Austrian authorities together with their child.

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