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ARCHIVED - 81 Algerian migrants reach Murcian coastline on Friday and Saturday
Six boats containing 81 people reached the Cartagena coast in the last 24 hours
This is the fifth set of arrivals in seven days.
The steady flow of irregular migrants from Algeria, entering Spain via “pateras” or small boats, continued on Friday evening and the early hours of morning, with a further six boats containing 81 migrants detected off the Murcian coastline.
The migrants are referred to as “irregular immigrants” by the EU; the Spanish media tend to call them “sin papeles” meaning those with no paperwork entering the country illegally, others refer to them as illegal migrants. The phrase irregular migrants is used on MT in an attempt to convey that these are not refugees, but economic migrants, in this case from Algeria, entering Spain and the EU in an illegal fashion, without passports or documentation and without any legal right to enter the EU as Algeria is not an EU member and there is no migration agreement between the two countries.
The vessels in this case, were located in Cabo de Cope, in front of Calblanque and close to Monte de las Cenizas
Boat one contained 15 people and reached the shores of Cabo de Cope on Friday night with 7 adults, 7 minors and a woman on board. A second boat with 16 men and one woman was intercepted close to Monte de las Cenizas in Cartagena and a third with 13 males on board was detected close to Calblanque.
The fourth boat was located 12 nautical miles from Cartagena with 13 males and one female on board.
The remaining two boats were detected at 9 and 13 nautical miles from Monte de las Cenizas, with a further 22 males on board in the early hours of Saturday morning.
All of those intercepted have been taken to the Escombreras port area in Cartagena for Covid testing. The positive cases have been hospitalised and their travelling companions put in quarantine for 14 days. Many of them are being sent to the Hotel el Cenajo in Moratalla for their quarantine. Any who travelled in boats without covid positives are released within 72 hours after receiving humanitarian aid from Cruz Roja.
A busy week for Cruz Roja and the coastguard:
Last Friday evening and Saturday morning twelve boats containing a total of 138 migrants were detected off the Cartagena coastline.
3 of the migrants had to be rescued by firemen and a helicopter from the regional CEIS fire and rescue service after their boat landed in a rocky area with poor access and they attempted to climb Monte de las Cenizas.
The two men and one woman had to be airlifted from the side of the mountain.
Seven of the new arrivals later tested positive for covid.
As the week wore on there were three further lots of arrivals; on Wednesday evening 37 migrants reached Murcia in three boats; on Wednesday morning ten out of 30 were detained after a boat landed on El Portús beach at 11am in the morning and its occupants scattered in the surrounding coutryside, much to the surprise of beachgoers. Police only managed to locate 10 of the 30 in the boat, three of whom tested positive for covid. The others were never located.
On Thursday evening a further 48 migrants arrived in four boats. The interceptions took place after 10 pm, when four boats with 8, 11, 14 and 15 irregular migrants on board, respectively, were sighted southeast of Monte de las Cenizas, in Cartagena.
It must be stressed that this is not specifically a Murcian problem and the arrival of irregular migrants is occurring right along the Spanish coast and on both the Balearic and Canary Islands.
Numbers of irregular migrants up 520% in the Canary Islands during 2020; welcome centres are overwhelmed trying to cope with the volume of arrivals and the need to quarantine the many covid positive migrants
Ministry of Interior figures: So far in 2020 a total of 3,448 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in pateras, an increase of 520.1% compared to the same period last year when 556 people arrived, overwhelming the facilities available on the islands.
At a national level, the total number of migrants who arrived in mainland Spain by sea so far is 10,716 people, compared to 14,597 in 2019, which represents a decrease of 26.6% and 3,881 fewer people. At this moment 676 boats, 124 more than in the same period of the previous year and 22.5% more, have been detected.
The number of migrants reaching the Balearic Islands by sea decreased by 47.3%, from 13,603 to 7,172 up to August 16th, in comparison to 2019.
Frontex: Frontex report arrivals picking up on EU external borders although figures are still lower than 2019:Western Mediterranean:
There were around 1 500 detections of illegal border crossings in the Western Mediterranean in July, 84% more than in the previous month.
Despite the rise last month, the total for the first seven months of 2020, was less than half the figure from the same period in the previous year at 6 100.
The number of Algerians, who accounted for one out of every two detections on this route this year, was seven times the figure from a year ago. Moroccans were the second most represented nationality on this route.
Donate to Cruz Roja; Humanitarian work to ensure those arriving in Spain are treated with dignity is undertaken by the humanitarian organisation Cruz Roja. If you would like to donate, here is the link: Cruz Roja Española
Further reading
EU Action plan against Migrant Smuggling 2015/2020 Click to read
EU Directive f2008/115/EC Common standards and procedures in EU Member States for returning illegally staying third country nationals. Click to read
FRONTEX european coast guard and border control agency. This explains more about the migration issue and shows the different routes taken. Our routes here are the "Western Mediterranean" routes used principally by Moroccans And Algerians.Click Frontex
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