France will deport any women discovered in a lorry
According to a French public prosecutor, four of the six women who were saved from the back of a vehicle on Wednesday must leave the country within 30 days.
Police discovered the eight ladies after they boarded the lorry that they thought was traveling to the UK and discovered four Vietnamese and two Iraqi women among them.
One of the women spoke with a BBC reporter from inside the car, and the journalist then called French police.
Which of the four ladies will be deported is yet unknown.
According to a statement from the prosecutor, the other two have been given permission to remain in France while applying for asylum.
The women boarded the lorry with the expectation that the Irish-registered vehicle would take them to England, according to Laetitia Francart, public prosecutor at the Villefranche-sur-Saône court.
In actuality, the truck was transporting a supply of bananas to Dunkirk before continuing on to Italy.
The women, who were assumed to be immigrants, began to fear when they looked at their phone locations and saw that the lorry's course had changed.
One of the women, who was having trouble breathing, was able to get in touch with a BBC reporter and inform them of their predicament. After that, Khue Luu was able to inform the French authorities.
How a BBC distress call resulted in the rescue of six captive women
The truck driver, who had also started to hear what sounded like voices, began to wonder if there may be people within the trailer.
The vehicle afterwards pulled over in a lay-by and dialed 911, according to the prosecutor.
Eventually, French authorities connected the reports to the lorry, and after checking the vehicle, they discovered the six ladies inside the refrigerated trailer.
The prosecutor claimed that although the temperature was 6C (42F) when it was opened, all of the women were said to be in good health.
The prosecutor stated that although the driver was first detained when the women were found inside, he was not suspected of any wrongdoing at the time.
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The caller asked for "urgent" assistance on Wednesday, according to BBC journalist Khue B Luu.
When Ms. Luu managed to get in touch with someone inside the car, they provided her messages and videos of their surroundings, which included a dark compartment and rows of fruit-filled crates.
The journalist called reporters who were based in France and colleagues from BBC News after compiling as much information as she could, who were subsequently able to notify police.
The situation inside the truck seemed to have become worse in later texts:
One woman wrote, "We're so choked.
The women were eventually informed that the vehicle had been found by French police in the Rhone region, and they were safe.
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