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Friday, February 17, 2006
More African Boat People Arrive in South Tenerife
Yet another patera, this time carrying 37 illegal immigrants, arrived on Tenerife’s south coast in the El Médano area last week. Tenerife News report, "One surprising feature of this landing has yet to be explained, however. Among the detritus on board the patera were plastic shopping bags from a well-known Canary supermarket chain and Spanish brand foodstuffs. How they came to be there if the boat had come, as is thought, from Mauritania, remains a mystery."
Kinda makes you think they are getting supplied and assisted somewhere at sea on the way, doesn't it? Which seems to suggest that there is someone friendly to or part of the trafficking network "management" here on the islands.
South Tenerife sees another patera arrival
