In this file photo taken on October 23, 2019, police officers are at the scene where a lorry, believed to have originated from Bulgaria, and found to be containing 39 dead bodies, was discovered at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London. A man suspected of being the organiser of the Vietnamese migrant smuggling network that smuggled into England a refrigerated lorry in which 39 people were found dead in October 2019 was arrested on May 27, 2020, in Germany. Twenty-six arrests also took place on May 26 in France and Belgium as part of the investigation. - AFP
HANOI/PARIS: French authorities on Sunday (May 31) have taken 12 suspects into pretrial detention who are believed to be responsible for the deaths of 39 migrants in a lorry in Britain last year.
One more person is under surveillance, judicial sources confirmed to dpa on Saturday.
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