Another group of migrants, "supposedly of Moroccan nationality", landed this morning on the beach at Vale do Lobo, revealed Commander Rocha Pacheco, Commander of the Southern Maritime Zone, in statements to Antena1.
It is a group of 22 men, which the National Maritime Authority intercepted upon arriving at the beach, around 4 am this Monday. The alert was given by a playful fisherman who was on that beach.
The migrants were sent to the port of Quarteira, where the INEM is already located, and will undergo Covid-19 screening tests, before being handed over to the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF).
In recent months, this is already the fourth attempt to land migrants from North Africa intercepted on the Algarve coast. On the past 6th, another boat with 6 migrants, who also claimed to be Moroccans, had already been intercepted inside the Ria Formosa.
On January 29th, the same thing had happened, with a vessel with 11 migrants, coming from El Jadida, a Moroccan coastal town, who were caught in front of the Barra da Armona.
The first group of Moroccan migrants had arrived in the Algarve on the 11th of December, when 8 young people who also claimed to come from El Jadida (the former Portuguese Mazagão) landed on the beach of Monte Gordo, where they were intercepted by the authorities.
Like the others, the group that arrived on the Algarve coast today used a small wooden boat with an outboard engine, a “batter”, to cross the sea from Morocco.
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