Authorities Morocco announced the rescue of 57 migrants, including 7 minors, this Wednesday The 13-year-old was on a boat bound for the Canary Islands, at a time when such operations have increased in recent weeks.
The General Staff of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces announced that the boat was stopped this Wednesday five kilometers off the coast of the city of Dakhla in occupied Western Sahara. He also explained that the rescued people, all of sub-Saharan origin, received the necessary basic medical care before being transferred to Dakhla and placed at the disposal of the Royal Gendarmerie, and the relevant administrative procedures were followed, as notified by the Moroccan Police Department. state news agency, MAP.
Moroccan authorities They caught nearly 87 thousand immigrants irregularly in 2023 Various operations carried out in the waters of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans and in other parts of the African country had the goal of reaching Spain.
The balance sheet of the Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs as of January 3, 2024 shows a total of 56,852 immigrants who arrived irregularly in Spain in 2023; This is 82.1 percent more than in the same period in 2022, when 31,219 people arrived. Thus, 2023 became a record year in migration as it was the second year with the most irregular entries into Spain after 2018.