The National Police yesterday arrested four men as alleged patrons of the cayuco rescued in the south of La Gomera on December 6, and in which one person died and others required hospitalization. These four men, of sub-Saharan origin, are also attributed crimes of injury, reckless homicide and favoring clandestine immigration. The Police recall that the 20 occupants of this cayuco had a very deteriorated state of health as a result of the conditions in which the journey had been covered.
One of the occupants needed to be transferred by helicopter from La Gomera to the Candelaria Hospital in Tenerife and another five were admitted to the island’s hospital while one person had already died at the time of the rescue. The Police indicate that given the seriousness of the events, the investigation and the process of identification and assistance of the rescued migrants began. The agents were able to prove that the boat left the Mauritanian city of Nouakchott at dawn on November 29 and that, among the migrants traveling in the cayuco, were the owners of the boat.
Maritime Rescue disembarked 45 men of sub-Saharan origin who were in a 15-meter long boat when they were sighted, 265 kilometers southwest of Gran Canaria, by a pleasure boat and guarded later at 7.25 am at the Arguineguín pier. by a merchant until the arrival of Guardamar Polimnia. The rescue of these people occurred at 11:30 p.m. on Monday, after the Labriz boat communicated to the La Marina marina, in Tenerife, that it had sighted the cayuco on its trip to Cape Verde, so from the port They gave the notice at 4.30 pm to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Rescue Coordination Center. The Guardamar Polimnia crew was in charge of this operation, which has been prolonged given the long journey that this ship had to make from the Canary Islands until it found the aided cayuco.
