The Civil Guard of Ceuta has to two individuals, one from Ceuta and the other from Morocco, accused of four alleged crimes of homicide and against the rights of foreign citizens. Both threw into the sea, in full storm, to nine Moroccan illegal immigrants to those who tried to introduce irregularly into national territory in a boat.
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 the 112 that “several people had been forced to throw themselves into the sea” near the beach of El Sarchal, in the southern bay of Ceuta.
various units of the National Police and of the Armed Institute They traveled to the area and found that the boat had headed towards the local marina after detecting the presence of the Civil Guard.
The agents intercepted three undocumented Moroccans on the beach line and the following day the troops of the Specialist Group in Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the meritorious They located a body in the waters of the port.
The appearance on social networks of videos proving that the deceased was part of the embarked group forced the researchers to take “a different course from the one initially known” and thanks to the survivors it was verified that “despite the harshness of the sea, they were forced to throw themselves, without knowing their swimming abilities, not being provided any buoyancy system such as vests or any other element that performed said function”.
The Civil Guard recovered three other lifeless bodies on January 31 and February 2, which “accentuated” the initial investigation, called ‘Operation Kraken Ceuta’. According to the Benemérita, although “no complaint has been filed” about the two people who remain to be located, “it is known” that one is “again in Morocco” and the other “his whereabouts are unknown.”
