2023-10-22 22:20:00
Canary Islands rescue services announced that 1,427 African migrants reached the Spanish archipelago between Friday evening and Sunday, including on board a boat carrying a record number of 321 people. Migrant arrivals are on the rise.
Published on: 10/23/2023 – 00:20
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In total, 1,427 African migrants arrived on the coasts of the Canary Islands in different precarious boats between the night of Friday and Saturday and the morning of Sunday, the rescue services of the Spanish archipelago off the coast of Morocco announced on Sunday, October 22. on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
boats @salvamentogob During the followingnoon they intercepted two cayucos with 132 migrants on board.
➡️ 68 were assisted in the port of Las Galletas #Tenerife
➡️64 in Arguineguín #GranCanaria— 1-1-2 Canarias (@112canarias) October 22, 2023
Public television channel TVE showed images of the arrival on Saturday of the colorful boat, crowded with smiling and waving migrants around them, in the island’s port.
A “resurgence” of arrivals in Spain
According to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, the archipelago received 23,537 migrants between January 1 and October 15, almost 80% more than during the same period last year.
During the first two weeks of October, 8,561 migrants arrived, a record number, according to Spanish media, since a previous migration crisis in 2006.
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This “resurgence” of arrivals is linked to “the destabilization in the Sahel”, said the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, during a visit to the Canaries this week.
The migration route through the Canaries has been very busy in recent years due to the tightening of controls in the Mediterranean. But shipwrecks are frequent during these long and dangerous crossings aboard small boats from Morocco or Western Sahara, regarding a hundred kilometers away, but also, further south, from Mauritania, Senegal and even Gambia. , regarding a thousand kilometers from the Spanish coast.
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