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Heusweiler (dpa / lrs) - The police discovered five illegally entered people in a truck in Saarland.
The federal police announced on Tuesday that an employee of the road maintenance department had alerted the officials.
Accordingly, on Monday at the Kutzhof rest area on Autobahn 8 near Heusweiler, he observed a truck driver talking to people on the shop floor.
The country of destination for Afghan citizens was originally France.
Three of them are to be brought before the judge in the Saarbrücken district court on Tuesday, two will spend the next few days in a youth facility in Saarland.
The truck driver was able to continue his journey after being questioned.
He is awaiting criminal proceedings on suspicion of smuggling foreigners into the country.
Press release with picture