"The [German] driver was quite shocked to find people in his vehicle," Somerset Police superintendent Geoff Wessell told a digital tv channel.
The man was also arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into Britain and is assisting police with their enquiries.
What an absolute joke. As a truck driver formerly employed in international work between the UK and western Europe it is my firm opinion that the only ones facilitating illegal entry are the governments of France and Britain. Each time an illegal immigrant, someone who lets not forget are in France illegally, with no right to enter and to be there, are found on a truck, the authorities who make no effort to remove these people from Calais, try and fine the driver 2000 pounds for each one, and then immediately release them right back outside in to the local community in or near Calais. The very same Syrian or Afghan may be the source of multiple 2000 pound fines before he finally reaches the UK. Its the biggest state run extortion racket known in recent years. Meanwhile hard working drivers who spend often weeks away from home are portrayed to be in cahoots with criminal gangs when nothing could be further from the truth.
Drivers take huge efforts in to preventing and removing these illegal immigrants from their trucks, often being threatened with and occasionally receiving violence as a consequence. Several times I've witnessed with my own eyes, UK customs in Calais on a "Go slow" so that that there ends up being a 1 or 2 miles backlog of trucks on the approach road in to the port, all stationary and being assailed in broad daylight by hundreds of illegal immigrants....then hey presto, they truck rolls in to the port gates, tells the French or British customs that because they were made to stand still on the road through no fault of their own, they now have immigrants on their trailer, and are subsequently arrested and issued with fines that often result in bankruptcy and home repossession.
The situation is one purely manufactured by politicians and paid for by ordinary hard working citizens who drive the trucks and are absolutely powerless to prevent the abuses laid on them firstly by our respective governments and by the immigrants themselves who more and more often resort to physical violence to the truck driver. It is no different to the police stopping a car and planting something illegal on it and then their colleage down the road stopping them and finding the illegal object, a complete abuse of power and authority. What a disgrace.