Gardaí travel to Belgium for trial of traffikers of asylum seekers

GARDAÍ are due to travel to Belgium for the case of five men accused of trafficking 13 asylum seekers, eight of whom died en route, to Ireland over a year ago.

An international police investigation was launched to trace the gang which arranged transport for the asylum seekers found dead in a container in Wexford on December 8, 2001.

The men, who include a father and son and a truck driver, are due before the courts in Belgium on February 25, in connection with the incident. The case is likely to take three days.