Refugee Drama of Parndorf Celebrates Itself for the Tenth Time

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The investigators who opened the truck had a terrible picture: 71 people from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Iran had fought for their lives in the narrowest space. At the arrival of the police, the decomposition fluid came out of the loading area. Later it turned out that the refugees had died the day before they were found on Hungarian territory. Lifelong detention for those responsibleIt was 59 men, eight women and four children, including thre…

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At the height of the refugee movement, Burgenland became the scene of a tragedy in 2015: On 27 August, an employee of the Asfinag on the East Motorway (A4) near Parndorf discovered an approximately 7.5-ton refrigerated truck, which was parked in a sloping bay. In the airtight cargo compartment were the bodies of 71 refugees who had suffocated during the tug ride. The four main perpetrators were sentenced to life imprisonment in Hungary in 2019.