The Nice Criminal Court has just sentenced two Niçois, aged 22 and 26, to twenty months in prison to be served immediately, Xavier Bonhomme, public prosecutor of Nice,
told
20 Minutes , confirming information from
Nice-Matin
.
The gendarmes arrested them at the wheel of an opening car and a van on Sunday evening in Sospel, in the Alpes-Maritimes and discovered 23 migrants on board the second vehicle.
Between 100 and 150 euros pocketed per migrant
According to the local daily, one of the two young people is both a delivery driver and a supermarket employee, while the other is at the RSA.
The latter, having financial difficulties, would have been put in touch with a trafficker in Ventimiglia, the first Italian city after the border.
According to the first elements of the investigation, he earned between 100 and 150 euros per person to bring them to France.
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