In Spain, the Unified Civil Guard Association is sounding the alarm over the increasingly frequent use of jet skis by irregular migration networks from Morocco. The authority asks the Spanish government to grant it technical means to deal with a phenomenon which has been gaining momentum in recent months.
Previously, jet skis were mainly used to transport irregular migrants to Ceuta. Currently, the coast of Cadiz in Andalusia is, according to the channel Canal Sur, the preferred destination of the organizers of these one-way trips, subject to payment of up to 5,000 euros for each candidate. A sum greater than the 1,000 or 2,000 euros required for a crossing to the other side of the Mediterranean aboard a patera, raises La Razon.
“These machines are difficult to stop, because they endanger the safety of other boats and even of certain bathers”, explains an element of the Civil Guard in statements to the same media. Besides its driver, the jet ski can carry up to two people.