SPAIN: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS STOPPED, GETTING OFF ITALIAN SHIP
(ANSAmed) - MADRID, OCTOBER 9 - 51 illegal Moroccan
immigrants arrived yesterday in Barcelona on an Italian
passenger ship and tried to enter into Spanish territory with
false documents and were arrested when they got off the ship by
national police officers.
The migrants, according to police sources reported by the
media, were intercepted on the merchant vessel "El Fantasic",
which covers the route Tangier-Barcelona-Genoa, arrived in the
port of Barcelona with 200 passengers on board.
By checks carried out by border police it emerged that 51
people, between 20 and 30 years of age, all Moroccans posing as
Belgian citizens, were illegal immigrants that had falsified
documents to enter illegally into the country. Against the 51
Maghrebi, 51 orders for immediate deportation were started and
they have been put back on he ship, which is the object of an
investigation by legal authorities. (ANSAmed)
2008-10-09 14:49