The Civil Guard has arrested this Thursday two people accused of four crimes of homicide after having thrown several Moroccan immigrants into the sea. When they were approaching the Ceuta coast, they were seen and decided to throw the people they were transporting into the water to avoid being arrested.
Apart from the defendants, nine people were traveling on the boat, four of whom died and one remains unaccounted for.
As reported by the local Command of the Benemérita in a statement to the media, the detainees acted as patrons of the boat that on January 24 at 10:20 a.m. was detected by citizens who alerted 112 that "they had forced them to jump to the sea several people" near the beach of El Sarchal, in the southern bay of Ceuta.
The boat headed towards the Ceuta marina and they fled, without being intercepted by the agents.
The Civil Guard located three people from Morocco on the same shore of the beach and the day after the events the lifeless body of a Moroccan man was recovered by the Specialist Group in Underwater Activities (GEAS) inside the port .
The appearance in different networks of videos about the occupants of the inflatable boat allowed the identification of the located corpse.
Thanks to one of the survivors, it was learned that, despite the harshness of the sea, they were forced to throw themselves into the water without any means of staying afloat.
The number of bodies increased as the GEAS recovered another body on January 31 on the beach of "La Ribera" and on February 2, two more bodies in the south bay.
The investigation, dubbed the "Kraken Ceuta" operation, culminated this Thursday with the arrest of M.L.A.H., 23, born in Ceuta, and M.E., 20, born in Morocco.
The boat, which has been intervened, was occupied for its transfer from the Moroccan coasts to the Ceuta coast by a total of nine people, four of them identified corpses, three were intercepted by the National Police on the beach and no complaint was filed some with respect to the other two, although it was learned that one was back in Morocco and the whereabouts of the other are unknown.
The detainees will be brought before the courts as alleged perpetrators of four crimes of homicide and another against the rights of foreign citizens.
