Four men have been given 25 years in prison in Hungary for the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in a sealed lorry in August 2015. The case, in which a gang of smugglers drove from Hungary to Austria and left the lorry abandoned with the victims' decomposing bodies, shocked Europe at the height of the migrant surge. The evidence produced against the gang leader included a phone-tap recording in which he ordered the driver to keep going despite the victims' cries for help. He and three other accomplices got 25 years, while 10 others got shorter jail terms.
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Hungary Jails Gang for Deaths of 71 Migrants in Lorry
Four men have been given 25 years in prison in Hungary for the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in a sealed lorry in August 2015. The case, in which a gang of smugglers drove from Hungary to Austria and left the...
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