This file court artist sketch dated Oct 6, 2020 by Elizabeth Cook shows Gheorghe Nica (left) and Eamonn Harrison at the Old Bailey in London. Two members of an international people-smuggling gang were convicted of manslaughter on Dec 21, 2020 over the deaths of 39 people who were found in the back of a container truck in southeast England. A jury at London’s Central Criminal Court found Romanian mechanic Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Northern Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, guilty of the deaths of the Vietnamese victims, who were found dead in the English town of Grays. - AP
FRANKFURT, Jan 19 (AFP): German federal police said on Tuesday they were stepping up European cross-border cooperation to fight Vietnamese human trafficking, after Berlin became a key hub in a network of exploitation in service industries.
Lured by jobs in Europe, Vietnamese migrants are smuggled illegally often through China or Russia, Carsten Moritz, head of the human trafficking unit of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), told public broadcaster RBB.
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