SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 3 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Agents of the National Police have arrested eight sub-Saharan migrants as alleged patrons of the boat that arrived at Puerto de los Cristianos on May 10 with 57 migrants on board after being located 17 nautical miles from the south of the island.
The agents displaced to the place interviewed the migrants, 13 of whom stated that they were minors.
Once the information had been compiled, after different interviews and statements by the migrants on board, the agents identified eight of them as the presumed patrons of the boat and proceeded to arrest them, accusing them of the alleged authorship of a crime of favoring clandestine immigration.
The detainees, together with the report made for this purpose, were made available to the competent judicial authority, according to a note from the National Police.
The actions were carried out by national police officers from the Provincial Immigration and Borders Brigade of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Provincial National Police Station.
