An attempted illegal immigration thwarted on Sotillo beach in Castell de Ferro in Grenada on Sunday. Images viewed by Mirror show a boat carrying around 13 young men – probably from Morocco – arriving on this Spanish beach around 2 p.m. Vacationers who spent good weather seeing passengers diving into the water, swimming to the beach. “We thought it was a pleasure boat, but when we saw people diving into the water and starting to go out, we understood that it was not normal,” tells Ideal Alberto Garcia, a restaurateur in the region.
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He adds: “What surprised us the most is that the boat was advancing very slowly, as if they were neither in a hurry nor frightened. They entered where there were the most people, as if nothing had happened, and stopped five meters from the shore. Then they jumped one by one, and the four that remained on board, some of them hooded, calmly turned around and left. Once on the beach, these clandestine migrants tried to run away as quickly as possible or to blend into the mass. But they were braked in their momentum by vacationers. They retained them until the arrival of the Spanish Civil Guard. A video also shows an individual clipping the ankles of a flight migrant.
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We also see a man dressed only in his swimsuit tacking one of the men on the ground. “The rescuers alerted us and we managed to catch one on the street. We then helped to identify two others, ”said local Castell de Ferro police. And to specify: “The civil guard did the bulk of the work and managed to stop nine people. »»
