Four migrants died this Wednesday after being thrown from a boat into the sea at Camposoto Beach, in the municipality of San Fernando, in Cádiz, shortly before 1:30 p.m. The semi-rigid boat in which they were transported, along with 23 other people who have managed to be rescued alive, is the same type of vehicle that drug traffickers usually use as a boat-taxi.
The pilots of the ship were thus able to escape from the Civil Guard, leaving these migrants to their fate in a rather dangerous area of eddies and currents. With the sea being rough, it was difficult for them to reach the shore of the beach on their own. It is suspected that the fatalities did not know how to swim, perishing without having the option of reaching dry land. There were several citizens who were on the beach at that time who initially helped the victims and who captured the cruel moment in which the human traffickers threw them into the sea.
Similarly, three other migrants who were also washed up on the shore on Sancti Petri beach, in Chiclana de la Frontera, have been hospitalized due to hypothermia. A total of eight North African men of legal age were traveling on the boat and were treated by health personnel and the Civil Guard after the members of a nautical company initially acted by offering their help and sounding the alarm to Emergencies 112. .
The data has been confirmed by the Government Subdelegation, from where it has been confirmed that Maritime Rescue with boat and helicopter, members of the National Police, as well as the Civil Guard both on land and with the Maritime Service with a boat work on the device. . Members of the Red Cross are also collaborating by paying attention to those rescued.
It is the new 'modus operandi' of criminal organizations that traffic migrants detected on the coast of Cádiz, although it is not the first time it has happened. Something similar already happened a couple of months ago in Conil, when another narco-boat (a 12-meter-long semi-rigid boat whose navigation is prohibited in Spain) approached the shore and several people jumped into the water. The inflatable boat turned around in a few minutes and was lost out to sea, avoiding the surveillance boats. In today's event, the skipper even threw some crew member into the water before turning course.
According to the Civil Guard in the closing of an operation to dismantle one of these networks, for this express journey to Spain a migrant can pay up to 5,000 euros, although up to 15 people can travel on the boat.
In total, there have been 35 immigrants who have arrived aboard the two boats, of which four have died, two remain admitted to the hospital and 29, once treated by the Red Cross, have been transferred by the National Police to the Center of Temporary Attention to Foreigners (CATE) of Crinavis in San Roque.
From the Unified Association of Civil Guard (AUGC), its national spokesperson Pedro Carmona regrets the events "deeply", and assures in a telephone conversation with La Vanguardia that they have been warning for some time that drug trafficking mafias not only use boats to bring drugs to the Spanish coasts, but they also use them to traffic human beings, as can be seen in the video.
