The National Police arrested yesterday in Los Cristianos, in Tenerifeto the four skippers of the boat in which the lifeless body of a minor was found, for the alleged responsibility of the crimes of reckless homicide and favoring clandestine immigration. The harsh conditions in which the journey took place could have caused the death of the minor in a canoe in which 226 sub-Saharan migrants were traveling.
At five in the morning on October 27, a ship was intercepted by the Maritime Rescue service, after being located eight miles from the port of Los Cristianos. The occupants were transferred to the aforementioned dock. Fourteen of the migrants were transferred to a hospital to receive medical attention, four of them urgently by helicopter.
The body of a minor was found inside the canoe. The investigations carried out by National Police investigators led to the identification of the four boat skippers. The harsh conditions in which the 11-day voyage took place, without food or water inside the boat allegedly governed by the now accused, could have contributed to the death and poor health of the aforementioned fourteen patients. According to the testimonies provided to the agents, several more people died during the crossing and their bodies were thrown overboard. After being brought to justice, three of the accused were placed in preventive detention and the fourth was provisionally released with precautionary measures.
On the other hand, Salvamar Macondo accompanied a cayuco in the early hours of yesterday that sighted the Civil Guard when sailing 16.7 kilometers south of the southeast coast of Gran Canaria, where its 106 occupants, of sub-Saharan origin, landed, including four children and six women. The Civil Guard alerted Maritime Rescue at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. The Salvamar Macondo set out in search of it, whose crew located the ship an hour later and proceeded to escort it to the port of Arguineguin. With this boat the migrants who have arrived this year to the coasts Canary Islands exceed 32,000, after surpassing on Saturday the historical figure of 31,678 from 2006.
The tragedy of the last few days in the canoes that have reached The iron It happened again yesterday in Valverde. The mortal remains of the two migrants who died on Saturday at the Herreño Hospital were buried in the Valverde cemetery in the presence of island authorities, emergency team personnel, NGOs and citizens anonymous. These people were buried as Immigrant F08 and Immigrant J11. Both victims arrived on the Island at dawn last Friday in one of the four boats rescued by Maritime Rescue and the Civil Guard.
While on the African coast the interceptions do not stop either. The Senegalese Navy rescued a boat with 221 irregular migrants, among whom was a three-day-old baby, as reported yesterday by the Navy of that country.
Likewise authorities of Morocco They carried out several maritime rescue operations between Friday and Saturday in which they helped more than 400 migrants and refugees who were supposedly trying to reach the coasts of the Canary Islands, as well as in Mauritania, where several bodies were located in the sea after the rescue of a canoe
