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Date Published: 17/05/2021
ARCHIVED - Boat carrying 11 irregular migrants including three children reaches coast of Calpe
A boat carrying 11 migrants, including three children, was intercepted off the coast of Calpe in the Marina Alta Comarca, Alicante province.
The flow of irregular migrants to the Costa Blanca continues with a further 11 arrivals off the coast of Calpe.
More frequent attempts to reach the Spanish coastline coincide with calmer seas and fairer weather, as was the case on Sunday morning, May 16 and across the weekend a steady trickle of boats carrying irregular migrants reached the coastlines of not only Alicante province, but also the Murcia and Andalucia regions.
In this case, a small vessel carrying 11 Algerian migrants, among them three children, was intercepted at around 6am.
Cruz Roja (Spain's Red Cross) confirmed all those on board were in good health and were taken to the Port of Alicante where PCR tests were carried out to rule out any cases of Covid.
The arrival of the irregular migrants comes days after a boat carrying eight illegal migrants, also from Algeria, was intercepted at Alfaz del Pi, near Benidorm, Alicante on Saturday, May 8.
NB: The migrants are referred to as “irregular immigrants” by the EU; the Spanish media tend to call them “sin papeles” meaning those with no paperwork entering the country illegally, others refer to them as illegal migrants.
The phrase irregular migrants is used to convey that these are not refugees, but economic migrants.
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