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The bodies of 39 Vietnamese were found in a crowded truck on October 23, 2019.
The London courts are hearing a case involving the deaths of 39 Vietnamese smuggled into the UK.
On October 22 in a London court, a Vietnamese man said his parents paid the smuggling group £ 13,000 to take him from France to the UK in October 2019.
Prosecutors said the people who smuggled him were the same group behind the truck two weeks later, where 39 people died.
The Vietnamese migrant, who in court called Witness X for his protection, said the journey began in an apartment near Paris. Here, he met 14 Vietnamese escorts.
From this department, they took a taxi for about an hour and a half to the field, hiding there.
They were told not to bring anything, not even passports, and to turn off their phones.
A truck is approaching. The driver spoke English, opened the door, ushered them in, hurried inside.
Pham Thi Tra My, 26, and Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, were two of the victims
Take part, the driver pulls up, give them water, tell them that when they hit the side of the car, they remember to get up, snuggle up, and “not make noise.”
The driver finally dropped them off at a port. The trunk was loaded onto a ferry, crossing the sea for several hours.
On the other side, the trunk was loaded, and then stopped in a place “far from London” with no homes.
Someone opened the car door, the witness said, and saw three black cars nearby
“Some came to pick us up. They said hurry up.”
Witnesses said that these people have a European accent. They took him to the apartment of a man named “Phong”.
He stayed on the second floor for a day, until his parents paid £ 13,000. They put money in an account in Vietnam.
Witness X said that he found a way to France from Vietnam, when he looked at a photo of his friend posted on Facebook that showed they had come to England.
His friend told him to contact “Phong” through the Viber app.
Witness X said that he left Vietnam in February 2019 on a visa to study in Poland.
He stayed in Poland for “about 6 months” studying business.
The family pays around £ 20,000 to obtain a visa for Poland and pay the “tuition”.
Then he went to France again, stayed here a few more months with a friend and then organized an illegal trip to England.
He said he wanted to go to England “for language reasons, and also because of the system.”
He said he paid thousands of pounds to some people in the UK to advise them on “paperwork”.
The prosecution said Witness X was smuggled into the UK by the same route as the 39 who died on October 23, 2019, also followed by the same group of organizations.
The prosecutor said the witness took a ferry from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in the Essex region, in a van, where they left their fingerprints.
The prosecutor said the driver in Belgium was named Eamonn Harrison. This person denied 39 homicide.
The driver’s name in Essex was Christopher Kennedy, an uncle who was guilty of tripping.
There are also two more people for the court. Gheorghe Nica denies 39 crimes of involuntary manslaughter and Valentin Calota denies helping with smuggling.
