Posted on 10/24/2019 8:26:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
British police have said that all 39 people who were found dead in a truck in a UK industrial park on Wednesday were Chinese nationals.
Their cause of death has yet to be established, the police added, as they “must undergo a full coroner’s process … before we move on to attempting to identify each individual within the trailer. This will be a substantial operation and, at this stage, we cannot estimate how long these procedures will take.”
On Wednesday, 25-year-old Northern Irish truck driver, Morris Robinson, was arrested on suspicion of murder after a truck, originating from Northern Ireland, and a container with the victims were found at an industrial park in Grays, Essex, a town 20 miles east of London.
CNN witnessed Northern Ireland forces search two properties in County Armagh, southwest of Belfast. Local residents identified one of the properties as the home of Robinson’s parents.
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“Essex Police said Wednesday that the container arrived at a nearby town, on the River Thames, after traveling from the Belgian port city of Zeebrugge. It was then transported by a red Scania truck to Waterglade Industrial Park.”
Isn’t it strange how the country that is supposedly the next superpower still has many citizens willing to submit themselves to the worst conditions of human smuggling to go elsewhere?
I wonder if they were part of a tour group that went wrong?
Truck drivers do not always check the cargo when they hook the trailers to their trucks (according to a US driver) Rules may be different in the UK.
Seems like if he was involved in the deaths - he would have just abandoned the trailer in the woods.
When the meeting was over, one of our senior managers and his assistant got them a cab, rode to the train station and got them on the correct train for their next destination.
They never showed up. Their superiors contacted us and chewed us out for not accompanying them to their destination. We got the definite idea that these two guys got off somewhere along the line and disappeared into the illegal immigrant population working in Japan. IOW, a job as an illegal immigrant in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in Japan was preferable to a life as a government official in China.
We simply told them that Japan was a free country which didn't handle people in that manner and they were free to file a missing persons report with the police.
The truck driver isn't the brains behind the operation.
That’s going to put a dent in the world Chinese Population.
Another true story (from two years ago)...here in Germany, they had this Chinese tour group that had arrived. Tour ‘leader’ had taken all of their passports, and they were on like the 7th day of this bus-tour around Germany.
They get down to Neuschwanstein (the Bavarian castle that tourists always stop and see). There on the back-side of it is this trail that leads up to a bridge that goes from one hill to another, and gives you a five-star view of the castle. So as part of this five-hour stop...the couple walks up to this trail point and the bridge, then they are never seen again. Tour-guide calls the police, and there’s a serious search mounted for that day and the next. No sign of the two. They just disappeared.
My guess is that the two had some money moved out of the China ahead of time, and some group picked them up along the trail....resettling them into Germany in an anonymous fashion.
But obviously someone can be charged with something.
Even Japan with their relatively miniscule problem (where illegal immigrants number in the thousands, not the millions) is not going to spend too much time looking for people like this. Germany or the United States, much less so.
It is a much different story in Japan if an illegal immigrant commits a crime or becomes a public charge. If the illegal is lucky, they will be on the next available boat or plane out of the country. Or they could serve some hard jail time first.
Well....that would be about as bad as bad as things could go.
That’s trucked up.
Carrion Luggage …..??
I suspect a foiled plot by the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu.
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