they charged a little one thousand euros for Moroccan children under guardianship located in reception centers in the Canary Islands and traveled by plane with third-party passports To the airports of Alicante, Malaga, Valencia and Barcelona.
That’s how an illegal immigrant network primarily trading in unaccompanied foreign minors worked -‘ores‘- and deployed by the National Police this week Lorca and in the Alicante towns of Crevillente and Callosa de Segura. ITthe journeys of ‘menas’On the plane they were always accompanied by the organization’s ‘passers-by’, supported by their families, either from Morocco or by other means.
institution under investigation Unit Against Illegal Immigrant Networks (UCRIF) from the policeIt consists of at least thirteen people of Moroccan descent, seven of whom were arrested in Crevillente and Callosa de Segura last Monday, under the supervision of the Order Court No. 4 of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife). Within the region, two arrests were made in Lorca, and the National Police asked the court to order the arrest of the other four members of the criminal group on false documents even though they may be in other countries or are still in Spain.
Different people traveled with the same papers
Police investigators examining the network’s contracted flights confirmed that the passports used by the different minors on the flights had the same links, so it was assumed that the leaders used the same documents as the “menas” introduced to the peninsula. . The police operation was carried out by UCRIF agents from the central brigade in Murcia, Tenerife, Alicante, Elche and Madrid. There was also the cooperation of the Crevillente Local Police, where the main person being investigated lived. Q. OFF
Tenerife court investigating case from seven detainees in Crevillente and Callosa Agreed to imprison two leaders Network seized in the province of Alicante. One of them, a Crevillente resident, is considered by the Police to be the prime suspect in what became known as ‘Operation Akrón’. Five other people arrested in Alicante province were released on charges.
In addition to the two ringleaders residing in Turkey, Crevillente and Callosawhere the police are Lorca third person in charge of the group. In addition to being the leader of the group, investigators accuse them of playing the role of ‘mine’ catchers, who they personally accompany on flights and then drive to their final destinations.
The other seven people involved in the incident are in the police investigation, they gave passports to the ringleaders using them with minors brought to the peninsula from Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. The other three examined were responsible for booking and paying for flights.
this disjointed organization It has been operating since 2021 and the police investigation was launched in January of this year after an NGO dedicated to the protection of minors in the Canary Islands sounded alarm.
This non-profit association has informed the Police that there are people making offers to foreign children under protection. In the center of Puerto de la Cruz the possibility to leave the island and travel to the peninsula with documents from your country. All this for money.
Seven people were also arrested in the nearby Alicante towns of Callosa de Segura and Crevillente.
A month later they were admitted to a center in Valencia. Two children fleeing the Canary Islands, exactly from the center that sounded the alarm. Based on his testimony, the National Police has been collecting evidence in recent months to identify all members of the network and continue their arrests.
Minors in Valencia informed the Police that they had flown from Tenerife to Valencia with documents taken from other people. that their families paid for the tickets. A third minor from Lanzarote also admitted that he was able to fly thanks to dedicated people.
Subsequent research made it possible to detect for several months New escape for the little ones from centers in the Canary Islandssome of them were caught trying to fly in airports with third-party passports provided by the organization, which is now dispersed.
this police investigation It collects an episode that occurred at the airport on April 23, 2022. Fuerteventura, where the main leader will board a plane to Valencia with three ‘menas’. The suspect was identified by an off-duty police officer who informed his colleagues in Valencia.
Again, the leader of the network did not departr because he suspected an act by an airline stewardess while he was in line to board the plane, and warned the three young children to leave, as Police could later observe on airport security footage.
this UCRIF research It remains open upon detection of signs of other crimes committed by the organization.