A Facebook group, 25 immigrants on the run and an 'aircraft boat': this is how 'Operation Brooklyn' was conceived

"My dream come true, now I am an emigrant."

's girlfriend ca

n't believe it.

Her father sent her money to take a flight to Casablanca and meet her in Istanbul.

And now

.

Yassine was one of the 25 young people who ran from Royal Air Maroc flight MAC437 after an emergency landing on November 5, 2021. They did not know it then, but

.

Lucía Muñoz

was listening to the radio that night when she came face to face with what she had been looking for for so long.

Confusion reigned in the control tower:

. "

Little by little, the information was confirming what the media would later baptize as

: coincidence or not, what those fugitives had done was to enter Spain illegally in a way never seen before.

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The 22 immigrants from the 'air boat' in Palma, released thanks to the repeal of the crime of sedition

Muñoz's production company,

, specialized in migration, had before it the way to tell the migratory drama in a way that would reach the general public.

He went to

, the documentary brand of the iZen Group, and the result is the documentary

, directed by

, which has just finished the post-production phase and is beginning its journey at international festivals in search of a distribution gap in some platform.

"As soon as you get the slightest chance, get out of Spain.

."

Her mother's advice came to Chouaib as she found a way to hide on the island she had sneaked onto.

Between euphoria and fear, he ran down the road in search of someone who could get him out of the quagmire.

Frame from the documentary 'Operation Brooklyn'. CAPA ESPAÑA / BETWEEN BORDERS

Hours before, on board the plane, a passenger had fallen ill.

says one of the health workers who treated him.

The flight attendants asked if there was a doctor on the plane, and those who identified themselves as such urged an emergency landing: in 15 minutes, the boy could enter a diabetic coma.

Chaos came when the presumed patient and his companion were evacuated.

After a while, the passage began to get nervous: they wanted to go out to smoke.

The violence grew until "they had no choice but to let them out," says a witness before the cameras of

.

And that was when the most surreal leak in the history of Spanish aviation began.

Three of the migrants were caught before leaving the airport.

To others, in the days to come.

tinge of

the event still had a surprise in store.

The "miraculous recovery" of the patient shortly after arriving at the hospital aroused suspicion.

And then came the Facebook group.

The documentary is shot with a cinematographic aesthetic, with a large number of overhead shots and a 'thriller' structure. CAPA ESPAÑA / BETWEEN BORDERS

"As of today, Brooklyn is legend."

The message appeared almost immediately in a closed community with everything and its logo and 40,000 subscribers, which defined itself as a "Government official" and in which only men were admitted.

A curious

caught the attention of the Spanish authorities:

.

Next, the author made a brief description of what Mallorca would experience: "You have to sit far from each other. One of you has to activate the GPS. When it passes over Spain, you have to fake an illness."

And the key:

. "

"We chose to call it

because one of the underlying questions is whether that operation is 25 people who organize to enter Spain or the authorities organized to cover their shortcomings."

The director of the film,

, was in direct contact with the author of the Facebook

that could have started everything.

However, at the time of the interview, he did not appear: "Everyone who draws his conclusions. He does not end up distancing himself from the matter or quite the opposite."

His documentary has a strong tone of denunciation, towards the Prosecutor's Office, which accused the immigrants of a crime of sedition with a much higher penalty (between eight and 10 months in prison) than any violation of the Aliens Law appealing to the

;

towards Penitentiary Institutions, which did not allow the team to meet with the escapees during preventive detention that lasted between 12 and 14 months;

and toward an event, which he says, "should make us reflect on how we treat immigration."

They had already finished filming when the story took a final turn: the 22 immigrants from the 'air boat' from Palma were released thanks to the repeal of the crime of sedition.

," Ocaña acknowledges, "but what we tell is a complete story, which begins with a striking event and ends with a group of innocents who have spent more than a year in pretrial detention."

They are all in Foreigners Internment Centers awaiting a future that is debated in seclusion between expulsion to Morocco and a new appearance before the courts, this time according to the immigration laws.

Operation

still has many pages to write.

"We are considering making the label that closes the documentary editable, for what may happen," Ocaña confesses.

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