The police in Upper Austria discovered more than 50 people on the loading area of a small truck. There have been four arrests. The men are accused of smuggling.
Alleged smugglers transported 53 people on the loading area of a small truck in Austria. The group with several small children sat crammed together behind a black tarpaulin on the loading area, as reported by the Upper Austrian police. “The people may have been on their way to Germany,” said the police.
She stopped the car today in Linz. Four people were arrested, including one who had initially tried to flee. According to the police, most of the people on the loading area came from Turkey, as did three of the four arrested, aged 18, 24 and 28. For the fourth, the nationality still has to be clarified. The men are accused of smuggling.
Suspected smugglers were also picked up in Eugendorf near Salzburg, including a woman from Germany, as reported by the local police. The police wanted to check a suspicious small truck on Saturday when the driver pressed the accelerator. He endangered other road users with risky driving style. When the police sat in front of the small truck with a patrol car, the vehicle drove up. Shortly before, the driver and front passenger had changed places. Both were arrested. It is a German and a Syrian, both 21 years old. According to the police, there were eleven “apparently escaped people” in the car, including a family with four children. They were unharmed. Two police officers were injured in the rear-end collision.
Source: Stern
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