US EditionTen Years After the Discovery of 71 Dead Refugees in the Cooler
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Ten years ago, 71 refugees suffocated in a refrigerated truck. With the help of criminal tugs, they wanted to cross the Balkan route to the EU. The case revealed the inhuman business of the tug gangs. By W. Vichtl.
59 men, eight women and four children died a cruel death in a van. Ten years later, little is remembered of their fate.
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The refugee tragedy with 71 deaths on the Eastern Autobahn (A4) near Parndorf marks its tenth anniversary on Wednesday: On August 27, 2015, an Asfinag employee discovered a refrigerated truck weighing approximately 7.5 tons parked in a breakdown bay. The hermetically sealed cargo area contained the bodies of 71 refugees who had suffocated during the smuggler's journey. The four main perpetrators were sentenced to life imprisonment in Hungary in …
At the height of the refugee movement, Burgenland became the scene of a tragedy in 2015: On 27 August, an ASFINAG employee discovered an approximately 7.5-ton refrigerated truck on the East Motorway (A4) near Parndorf, which was parked in a sloping bay. In the airtight cargo compartment, the bodies of 71 refugees who had been suffocated during the tug ride were found. Forensic doctors and investigators from that time are still inconceivable.
At first 15 to 20 people were expected to die, only with the time became aware of the extent of the tragedy. 71 people - men, women and children - have suffocated painfully in the cooling truck, which was discovered on the east highway on 27 August 2015.
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