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A total of 1609 illegal immigrants including 1301 Algerians, including women and minors, and 297 sub -Saharans arrived on the Spanish coast in one week on board 93 boats, while more than 200 migrants were rescued at sea by the Spanish and Algerian coast guards. This is what the Spanish Civil Guardia said this Wednesday, which specifies that some Moroccans are among the illegal immigrants who arrive in Spain from Algeria.
These new waves of arrivals have been favored by the return of good weather from August 9 following the days of lull in a summer season conducive to migration, explains the same source. The bad weather, the strong winds and the swell dissuaded the harraga to brave the sea during the first week of August. However, others did not hesitate to take the risk of the crossing being taken in shipwreck.
The smugglers also choose this period during which the official activities are in a standstill and where the human device is reduced due to the Autian holidays.
Thus, during the week from August 11 to 19, 1301 Algerians, 246 sub -Saharan and 11 Moroccans arrived mainly in Almeria, Mallorca, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Carthagène and Alicante, according to the Guardia Civil which indicates that 28 boats arrived during this period in Mallorca, 27 in Almeria, 25 in Ibiza, 11 in Cartagena and two in Alicante.
During the only day of August 12, 582 harraga, including 406 Algerians, 174 Sub -Saharan and 2 Moroccans arrived on the Spanish coast, notably in Almeria, adds the same source which underlines that according to the testimonies of the migrants intercepted and placed in reception center, the departures took place from the Côtes de l’Ouest Algeria.
During the day of August 13, 167 Algerians including 6 women and 26 minors arrived on the Spanish coast. They were followed the next day by 169 migrants, including 114 Algerians, 46 sub -Saharans and 9 Moroccans in Almeria and Palma and August 15 of 86 Algerians and 41 sub -Saharans in Ibiza.
This frequency continued the following days with the arrival on Sunday August 17, 202 Harraga and Monday of 284 Algerians including 26 children.
People who arrived in Spain are transferred to centers overloaded by the preceding arrivals. Many with women and children sleep on the ground, are content with plastic chairs or sleep outdoors for lack of beds or places inside the centers and are exposed, thus, to the lack of hygiene and diseases.
Illegal immigrants with the floor as a bed
However, these crossings have not all ended and almost turned into drama for some while others are missing.
The Spanish coast guards are looking for a boat aboard which 23 Somali nationals left on August 13 from Boumerdes towards the Spanish coast. Calls from their families in Somalia are constantly reaching the Spanish authorities and on social networks hoping that the missing will be found safe and sound.
According to the Guardia Civil, people who disappear for more than a week have little chance of being found alive if they do not have the means of survival and communications for their rapid location. The Algerian navy intervened in research operations at the request of the Spanish coast guard.
During the period from August 13 to 15, 109 people, including Moroccans and sub-Saharans, were rescued in extremis of death jointly by the Spanish and Algerian coast guard. Among the clandestine rescued are three women and a dehydrated baby. Videos on networks show rescue operations carried out by the Algerian navy.
A SOS has been launched for five days for these 23 Somalians
According to the same, despite these recent arrivals, irregular immigration to Spain from Algeria has decreased this year thanks to the measures reinforced by the Algerian coast guard, but the arrivals of Morocco in the Balearics increased by 170 % in the first six months, according to official data.
More than 550 Algerian illegal immigrants died at sea while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the Spanish coast during the year 2024 while more than 9,600 others managed to reach their destination at the risk of their lives.
L’NGO A non -governmental organization (NGO) is a non -profit association, of public interest, which is neither the state of the state, nor of international institutions Spanish Caminando Fronteras, specializing in migratory questions and help for migrants, 557 people died or worn in 2024, 431 Algerians on the migratory road leading from Algeria to the Spanish coast or the Balearic archipelago.
Over the past five years, 2,197 people have died or missing on the roads of Algeria to Spain following 216 shipwrecks.
During the year 2024, 11,521 illegal immigrants, of which 9,611 Algerians arrived in Spain from Algeria, while in 2023, there were 7,599 migrants including 6,432 Algerians who arrived in Spain from the Algerian coast.
The Spanish Navy crosses the coasts in search of shipwrecked
The same source said that in 2024, the increase in arrivals from Algeria is 65.9 % compared to 2023 while the increase in Algerian citizens entering Spain by sea is 66.9 % compared to 2023. The same source noted that the number of Algerian women and children was also up.
Passengers spend between 2,000 and 6,000 euros (Algerians pay an average of 1.6 million dinars), to make this journey on board small engine boats from 60 to 140 horsepower, completely unsuitable for this type of crossing in the open sea.
Many have been rescued by the Algerian navy. Bad weather conditions, mechanical breakdowns and poor condition of the boats are often behind these tragic shipwrecks.