The Civil Guard clarified what happened when some migrants were abducted in December 2022. Forced to jump from patera with the tip of a machete in Cartagena (Murcia). The survivors told 14 people Those who traveled to the coasts of the Region by barge-taxi returned to Africa. Now, investigators have arrested two people, ages 27 and 33, for alleged perpetrators of this tragedy at sea. After appearing in court, they were arrested and imprisoned for trafficking in human beings, being a member of a criminal organization and committing crimes. murder.
Six people swam to the beach, four drowned and four missing and probably dead.
The Armed Institute said in a press release that the case was made by a couple sailing on a sailboat off Punta Espada-Cartagena. corpses of two teenagers swimming in water. “Experts from the Benemérita Judicial Police took charge of the investigation, and they are responsible for finding these bodies. six immigrants detected a few hours before walking around cala reonaIn Cabo de Palos,” they pointed out. The survivors recounted what had happened.
They saw a patrol boat
They detailed that they paid between 6,000 and 7,000 euros to board the barge. ratio and already when they approached Cartagena, “they saw the presence of a police boat and at that time bosses armed with machetesThey forced 14 migrants, half a kilometer from shore, to drop their weight and jump into the water to escape at high speed.
Five men and one woman managed to reach the shore. They survived. After recovering from excessive exertion, they walked aimlessly for about two hours. They arrived at a bar where a worker was helping. immediately notifying the Civil Guard, treating survivors with support Red Cross.
The survivors also devoid of life jackets, flashlights or any other safety feature. The only service they had on board was improvisation USB slots for charging mobile devices.
The first two were found dead the same day, the body of another man was found not far from where the first two were found, and a week later in an inaccessible area near the coast of Lonja de Cabo de Palos. A fourth body points to the Corps, with signs that it has been at sea for several days.
they tried again
Fifteen days after this event While the investigation was ongoing, another patera-type boat with 11 people aboard was found off the coast of Cartagena. The Civil Guard Maritime Services patrol boat managed to reach the ship, while the crew escaped in the same vicious procedure to force the passengers to throw themselves into the sea, five kilometers offshore. This time, however, the immigrants resisted.
Civil guards managed to reach and board the boat, brought the passengers to safety and arrested the two crew members.
Intervented when they were arrested digital devices their subsequent analysis Used in the transition at dawn on December 8. They were probably the same paterists. So they were accused of the death of those people.