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Court orders preliminary detention of suspected human traffickers
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Budapest (MTI) – A court in Kecskemet, central Hungary, has initiated the preliminary detention of three Bulgarians and one Afghan citizen in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants left in a truck on the side of a motorway in Austria.
The court ordered the preliminary detention for one month, the head of the Kecskemet court Ferenc Bicskei said. The suspects have allegedly carried out human trafficking as an organised criminal activity, by coercion, for financial gain, he added.
Spokesman of the court Szabolcs Sarkozy said the suspects are a 27-year-old Afghan man and three Bulgarian men aged 29, 30 and 50. Of the four suspects, only one had a Hungarian residency permit. They were arrested near the Serbian border on Thursday, after the truck with 71 bodies had been found in Austria, he added.