Twenty-nine migrants were found in a truck intercepted by the gendarmes on the A6 motorway near Merceuil (Côte d'Or), the driver still being sought, we learned from the prefecture on Friday.
The small truck was stopped late Thursday afternoon by the gendarmes who found 29 people, migrants, in its trailer, the same source said.
The driver and a passenger managed to escape.
The nationality of the migrants, who do not have papers, is not known, but they all call themselves Indians.
They were placed in administrative detention, according to the prefecture.
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