illegal work, false documents … Twenty defendants in relation with Vietnamese restaurants appeared before the Criminal Court of Lyon from 6 to 17 December.
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In October 2019, the bodies of 39 migrants and refugees were found in a refrigerated truck in Essex, northeast London. Two years later, the origins of this drama lead to Grenoble where two Vietnamese, dead in this heavyweight. An investigation revealed a tentacular trafficking network of human beings. What earned twenty defendants, including an elected Grenoble and his wife, to be judged from 6 to 17 December before the Lyon Correctional Court of Correctional Court for “Treaty of Human Beings “,” Help with an irregular organized band “,” employment of a stranger without authorization of work “,” false and use of false “or” merciful association “.
One of the victims, Anh Huan Phan, told his story at the hearing. He had made the trip from Vietnam to truck, passing through Russia, Poland and Germany, after having, he said, paid 7,000 euros to a smuggler. Arrived in France, he had found a job offer in 2017 on a Vietnamese Facebook group to work in an Asian restaurant, New Saigon, and thus reimburse the smuggler for the trip to France, and for the one hoped for the England. In Grenoble, he first met Quoc Nhat Phan, who appeared at the trial.
It was he who made a false residence title and a false certificate of vital card, so that the employer can declare Anh Huan Phan. The latter has told, to the investigators isérois after his interpellation, his salary of 1,300 euros, paid in cash, for eight and a half hours of work six days by seven. At the end of 2017, he went to a bank branch of Corerc ( Isère), with two Vietnamese compatriots, to open bank accounts. But the Financial Security Service Manager has gave the eyebrows when he had in his hands their residence titles, looks strongly like false.
A few months later, the seven stay documents are on the desk of the Prefect of the Isère. A Vietnamese sector specializing in the manufacture of false administrative documents is not a hypothesis to exclude. From there, the investigators shot the string. Their work is contained in the thirty-five volumes that pile up behind the three magistrates of the e room since December 6. The two weeks of audience made us travel from Vietnam to England, with stops in Paris and especially a long stop in the south-east of France, in more than thirty Asian restaurants, from Grenoble to Marseille , from Carpentras (Vaucluse) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Ain). Only sixteen defended on the twenty returned were present, four having disappeared in nature. And the alloy is amazing.
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