Children Found in Car’s Trunk as Police Stop Vehicle at Border Check
Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- German federal police stopped a car near Ruhstorf, close to the Austrian border, during a fixed checkpoint.
- Police said 11 people, including six children, were travelling in a vehicle with only eight seats.
- Some children were reportedly in the trunk or on the floor without seat belts or child seats, and officers barred the driver from continuing.
German federal police stopped an overcrowded car on the A3 near the Austrian border after finding several children in the trunk.
Police said the vehicle had only eight seats but carried 11 people, including six children. Officers stopped it at a fixed checkpoint near Ruhstorf in the Passau district, a few kilometres beyond the border.
Some of the children were reportedly sitting on the floor and in the trunk. They were not wearing seat belts, and the vehicle had no child seats. Police prohibited the driver from continuing the journey in the car.
A police spokesperson initially could not say how the travel group eventually left the checkpoint.
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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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