MILAN, June 12 (Reuters) – Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a Romanian citizen who is the subject of an international arrest warrant from the UK for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese people who were being smuggled into Britain. Stefan Damian Dragos, 28, allegedly provided the truck which was used to smuggle the group of migrants, who were found dead in a freight container on the back of the vehicle in October 2019, Italian police said in a statement. He was arrested in the town of Cinisello Balsamo, north of Milan, but police gave no further details. The discovery of so many dead people – two as young as 15 – in the back of the truck on an industrial estate to the east of London shocked Britain and Vietnam. In January four men who admitted or were found guilty of manslaughter and immigration offences were given long jail sentences.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 12, 2021 09:22 UTC