'The suffering in that truck is beyond imagination, as is the utmost indifference the perpetrators showed toward the deaths of these 71 people'.
"They stopped first at about 6 a.m., but the victims made so much noise that instructed to keep going," Mezolaki said at the trial in Szeged near Hungary's southern border with Serbia.
Mezolaki said the traffickers had several opportunities to relieve the suffering of the victims. They had even purchased a steel cutter - but opted not to use it to open the truck. The truck was dumped near the town of Parndorf just after it crossed into Austria from Hungary and its rear doors were found wrapped in wire as a secondary fastener to seal them shut.
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