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A Polish couple has been sentenced to prison in Germany for trafficking migrants from Belarus in inhumane conditions, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
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The man and woman drove 16 Kurdish migrants from Belarus through Poland to Germany.
The 39-year-old Pole, who did not have a driver's license, was sentenced to three years in prison.
His partner received an effective sentence of two years and four months.
The couple admitted to transporting twelve adults and four children from the Polish city of Bialystok, near the Belarusian border, to northeastern Germany, where local police found exhausted Iraqi refugees.
The Poles, who run a grocery store in Warsaw, were to receive about 750 euros for the service.
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According to German authorities, the migrants paid about 100,000 euros to a trafficking network that helped them reach Belarus by plane and then to the Polish border.
The 16 refugees were crammed into a van measuring approximately 5.4 square meters.
Despite the high temperature inside the vehicle, the Polish couple stopped only twice for a short time on the road.
The migrants "could have suffocated," the judge said.
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