As per the reports around 700 or more migrants have reached the Sea Side of Almeria, Spain across the year. The migrants paid a huge amount (approximately €10,000) to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa, they think that they can live a better life in Europe. The migrants even don’t know that they are using the World’s Deadliest Migration Path.
People who belongs to poor families want to make their future best or want easy survival in life, they do have sufficient for survival but trying to make it better and for this they thinks that the life in Europe will be too good for that, and then they use a method by the way of sea without any documents or we can say this is completely a illegal process.
There is international Organization for Migration who claims that around 2,400 death were recorded in last year as they also want to cross the Mediterranean. As per the reports of migrants, 3 migrants who trying to reach Almeria lost their lives. Diario de Almeria said that a civil Guard seized a boat which was using for smuggling of peoples, they are 50 in number and Algeria and trying to reached Spain.
Another 11.5 meter-long Phantom Boat is caught by the Civil Guard which often used for Drug Smuggling. This is the third trip of the phantom across the ocean less than 7 days, the phantom was caught while bringing around 150 peoples to Spain. Along with this 2024 is also marked as deadliest year as per the migrants worldwide, in that year approximately 19 bodies rescued from the coast of America.
Know More about the Moving Migrants
This Migration is not happened for the first time as they crossing the channels from around 40 years, and around 19,000 deaths and missing at the time of crossing and approx 75% of them was happened in last five years. As per the past Decades the number of African Migrants reached is 4,000 in 2024 and 6,000 in 2023. The record of last 3 years according to Interior Ministry, around 139 peoples was arrested and among them only 33 was prosecuted.
On 01 October, 2022
The national Police and the team with secrete agents perform a joint operation along with EUROPOL, they have arrested a total number of 24 peoples as they are involved in the these Smuggling business and of migrants from Spain to Algeria and have done multiple crimes in the past. They also include in Smuggling of the Drugs and Stolen objects from Spain to Oran the main route which is used by them is return maritime routes.
Main Groups involved in this Criminal Structure
The investigation cleared that the there are two Criminal Organizations based in the province of Alicante, and the main focus of them is to reached other national provinces of Almeria and France. As the method followed by these organizations is quite similar in between them. They use four types of small working groups for different functions and tasks. They used sizes of boat to provide illegal entry of immigrants in the national territory in case of any collusion with criminal organizations.
Among all the four groups, divided by these two organizations, there was a command group which functions in providing tasks to the remaining members of the organization. The second group was in charge to picking up the migrants to the boat and from this to the other Spanish cities or sometime to the France as well as. Controlling and hiding the migrants during the temporary stay and providing them essentials like food, medicines, mobile phones is the responsibility of the third group. The last stage which is of money and this is done by the fourth group and the main work of this group is to exchange the money and this is done without any physical movement of money.
Another Method for Migrants
These types of trips are not only end with here; they also made trips to Algeria from France through the cities of Alicante and Almeria. This is mostly used by the migrants who want to return by non-authorized posts took this route as it avoids border controls. The pilots of the boats forced the migrants to stay in Spain for a complete season because the incidents that occurred in crossing the borders. And this network is known as “shuttle”.
They use vehicles which circulates over the area to make the migrants alert about the arrival or presence of police and assured them about success of transfer. The Costs of these method is mainly depends on the point of origin and the destination, like from Almeria to Alicante is between 200 Euros to 600 Euros and from Algeria to Almeria is around 5,000 Euros and Alicante to France casts between 700 Euros and 1,000 Euros.
The police have done a secrete operation, in this they found 24 prisoners who escape from one city to another which include 22 from Alicante, one from Almeria and other from Jaen as they all belongs to a criminal organization which are totally against the Rights of Foreign Citizens, also against from Public Health and Reception. And also a total amount of more than 40,000 Euros were found in cash in both national currency and Algerian Dinar, they also found four vehicles from these criminals.