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Hungary: Human traffickers get life sentences for 71 deaths
Migrants suffocated in a refrigerated truck in Austria in 2015
20 June, 20:06
(ANSA-AP) - BUDAPEST, 20 JUN - A Hungarian court has extended
the prison sentences of four human traffickers convicted last
year for their roles in a 2015 in which 71 migrants suffocated
in the back of a refrigerated truck found on a highway in
Austria.
According to Thursday's decision by an appeals court in the
southern city of Szeged, an Afghan man and two Bulgarian
accomplices were sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole, while another Bulgarian man may request
his release after 30 years in prison.
A year ago, all four had been given 25-year sentences for
belonging to a criminal organization and committing multiple
crimes, including human smuggling and manslaughter. Ten other
defendants, mostly Bulgarians, were given prison terms ranging
between four and 12 years. (ANSA-AP).
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