A French public prosecutor said that four out of the six women who were saved from a truck in France need to go out of the country in the next 30 days.
The police found four women from Vietnam and two women from Iraq after they got into a truck, thinking it was going to the UK.
It’s not clear which of the four women will be sent away.
The other two have been given permission to remain in France while they wait for a decision on their asylum requests, according to a statement from the prosecutor.
According to Laetitia Francart, a public prosecutor at the judicial court of Villefranche-sur-Saône, the women got into the lorry, believing that it would take them to England. The lorry was registered in Ireland.
Actually, the truck was bringing a load of bananas to Dunkirk and would later go to Italy.
When the women, who are believed to be migrants, realized that the lorry had gone in a different direction by checking their phone locations, they became very scared.
One of the women found it hard to breathe and was able to reach out to a reporter from BBC to explain what they were going through. Then, Khue Luu was able to inform the French authorities.
Meanwhile, the lorry driver started to think that there might be people inside the trailer. He heard voices that seemed to be coming from there.
The driver pulled over to the side of the road and called the police, according to the prosecutor.
The French authorities found six women inside a refrigerated trailer after connecting the reports to the lorry and investigating the vehicle.
The temperature was 6 degrees Celsius or 42 degrees Fahrenheit when it was opened, the prosecutor explained. However, all the women were reported to be healthy.
The driver was arrested when the women were found, but the prosecutor said he didn’t think the driver did anything wrong.
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France to deport any women discovered in lorry
