London.- The driver of the refrigerated truck in which 39 bodies appeared in an industrial estate in Essex (east of England) has been formally charged with 39 counts of homicide and other crimes, police confirmed on Saturday.
This is Maurice Robinson, a 25-year-old Norwegian, who was arrested shortly after the lifeless bodies of 31 men and eight women were found in the refrigerating chamber of the vehicle at dawn on Wednesday, according to an Essex police statement.
Robinson will appear on Monday before a court accused of 39 crimes of homicide, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist in illegal immigration and money laundering activities.
In the United Kingdom, the note said, the other three people (a man and a 38-year-old woman from the town of Warrington and a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland) who were arrested as "suspected of conspiracy to traffic people and homicide, continue in police custody. "
In addition, the Irish police today arrested a Norwegian in the port of Dublin whom Essex investigators were looking for in relation to these events.
The British police investigate in the Vietnamese community in relation to the 39 bodies found, although without ruling out more nationalities among the victims.
All the bodies have already been transferred from the place in Tilbury Docks where the vehicle had been taken to the Broomsfield hospital in Chelmsford, where autopsies are being practiced.
Inspector Martin Pamore, who met this morning with the Vietnam ambassador to the United Kingdom, assured the press that the police "will not speculate on the nationalities" of the deceased, after initially speaking of the dead "of Chinese origin ", then rectify and shuffle the possibility of Vietnamese victims.
He said that it is about "establishing whether there is a broader plot" behind the deaths, in the face of growing suspicions that the case is related to human trafficking mafias.
"The priority now is to identify the victims and reunite them with their loved ones," said the inspector about a process in which photographs, fingerprints, tattoos, marks or possible scars will be use
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