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Imigrantes bones, a maioria afegãos, foram encontrados dentro de um caminhão em uma estrada no norte da Grecia (Foto: Reuters)

In Greece, 41 migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck intercepted by police on a highway in the north of the country. Among the people hidden in this truck, a majority of young men of Afghan nationality. Seven of them had respiratory problems and were transported to the hospital.

With our correspondent in Athens , Joël Bronner

It is a banal roadside check, not far from the Turkish border, on a highway towards the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which is at the origin of the discovery of 41 migrants hidden in a refrigerated truck.

The person suspected of being the smuggler - a Georgian driving the truck - was arrested. According to the local press, an accomplice would have managed to escape.

This discovery is reminiscent of the end of October of the lifeless body of 39 Vietnamese , in a vehicle he found in England, in an industrial area near London.

Due to a renewed influx of refugees from Turkey for several months, Greece has returned this year - for the first time since 2016 - the main gateway for asylum seekers in Europe.

A situation that has partly pushed Athens to adopt in recent days a new law to make it more difficult to obtain this asylum. With the aim of multiplying referrals in the future.

At present, 34,000 asylum seekers are packed in largely unhygienic conditions in camps on five Aegean islands, such as Lesbos or Samos.