By Cathy Elelman • Published: 10 Aug 2020 • 9:58
UNEXPECTED: The dinghy hits the shore on a popular Mojacar beach CREDIT: Juan Francisco Rojas Twitter @VoxJf
A DINGHY with some 15 illegal immigrants on board reached the shore at Mojacar’s El Lance beach early Sunday evening, much to the astonishment of beach-goers chilling out in the cooling temperatures.
Continúan las llegadas masivas de inmigrantes ilegales al levante al levante almeriense. Esta tarde de nuevo Mojacar. Es imprescindible la labor de nuestra Armada en Mediterráneo para vigilar los barcos nodriza. Es imposible llegar así de impolutos tras una ruta por Mediterráneo. pic.twitter.com/u5ymwqfFWH — Juan Francisco Rojas (@VoxJf) August 9, 2020
Continúan las llegadas masivas de inmigrantes ilegales al levante al levante almeriense. Esta tarde de nuevo Mojacar. Es imprescindible la labor de nuestra Armada en Mediterráneo para vigilar los barcos nodriza. Es imposible llegar así de impolutos tras una ruta por Mediterráneo. pic.twitter.com/u5ymwqfFWH
— Juan Francisco Rojas (@VoxJf) August 9, 2020
As soon as the boat hit the sand just in front of the Ankara pub at about 7pm the immigrants took off across the beach and ran up onto the road, abandoning the rubber dinghy where it was. Spanish press reported that the Guardia Civil was trying to track them all down, but there are no updates on whether any have been intercepted. Also on Sunday night Guardia Civil located two dinghies with 29 Algerian immigrants on board about 30 miles south of Almeria in the Alboran Sea.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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How much longer do governments need to understand this is a Trojan horse. Every day boats full of young muslim men entering European countries. Can’t they see what is going on????
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