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Date Published: 28/09/2021
ARCHIVED - Coordinated attack sees seven migrant boats arrive in Almeria in under 12 hours
Andalucía authorities were overwhelmed as boats reached three Almería municipalities almost simultaneously on Monday
The influx of irregular immigrants arriving to the Costa del Sol by boat continues, with at least seven pateras arriving in Almería between 5am and 3pm on Monday September 27.
Alerts from concerned members of the public flooded in as the pateras (migrant boats) reached beaches in the municipalities of Mojácar, Carboneras and Cuevas del Almanzora.
The first alert was received at 5.50am, after five men were spotted on the AL-5106 road, one of whom had a foot injury, and soon after, the emergency services received another call about eight men who had disembarked on Playa de Villaricos (Cuevas del Almanzora).
At 7.10, several members of the public reported a group of between 15 and 20 people, who looked as if they had just gotten off a patera, walking down a road in Mojácar. Just over an hour later, at 8.30pm, another ten migrants disembarked in Cuevas del Almonzara, on Playa de Palomares.
Yet another boat reached Mojácar at 10.40am and a witness stated that, as soon as their boat reached the shore, the irregular immigrants began sprinting across Playa Macenas while being chased by Guardia Civil officers.
The last two emergency calls came in at 2.10pm and 2.45pm, after another patera reached the same beach in Mojácar (Playa Macenas), with between eight and 15 passengers aboard.
These kinds of coordinated attacks on the Spanish coastline are not unheard of, as large groups of irregular immigrants, presumably coordinated by the immigration mafias, have coordinated their arrival times in the past. The idea is to have as many pateras arrive at the same time as possible, on different beaches, in order to overwhelm the local authorities.
Meanwhile, the Guardia Civil have revealed that the eight dead bodies which washed up on Almería’s coast last week were indeed immigrants who were travelling on a patera from Orán (Algeria). The authorities believe that there were 14 passengers on the boat, meaning that six immigrants are still unaccounted for.
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