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When searching the vehicle near the British border on January 16, officers noticed a wooden partition, actu.fr reported.
Behind it were 10 Vietnamese and small holes in the partition for them to breathe, a local court heard Monday.
The van’s driver, a 30-year-old Bulgarian man, was sentenced to two years in jail for illegally transporting immigrants and received a five-year ban on the Channel between France and Britain.
The driver told the court that a taxi driver in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, asked him to drive the van from France to Manchester city in England for repairs.
He was paid 500 euros ($600) and did not know there were illegal immigrants inside, he claimed.
