Antonio Sempere Ceuta
Ceuta
Updated Sunday, February 18, 2024-01:10
The
Maritime Service of the Civil Guard
together with the
Red Cross Rescue Area of Ceuta
have been activated this Saturday night, alerted by the
National Police
after finding a minor in the area of the Campus, in the southern bay of Ceuta, who He had just swam in from a nearby beach in the neighboring Moroccan city of
Castillejos,
on the other side of the
Tarajal border.
The minor has confessed to the agents that he had been swimming with another child about whom he has not heard anything since he lost him when he was heading towards the coast of the autonomous city. Civil Guard agents and Red Cross lifeguards have searched the coast that limits the southern area of Ceuta to try to locate the second minor.
More than 40 Moroccan children entered Ceuta irregularly last weekend, despite the bad weather conditions that the
Karlotta
storm left in the Strait of
Gibraltar,
affecting the bays where the breakwaters that separate
Spain
are located. from
Morocco.
People who try to swim around the breakwaters in a few hours, including minors, risk their lives in the difficult task of reaching the beaches of Ceutias.
The rapid action of the rescue services, the Civil Guard, Maritime Rescue and the Red Cross prevents more victims from being counted on the dangerous route along
Europe's southern border.
The services were mobilized despite the adverse prevailing weather with a strong easterly wind and the sea in very poor conditions for navigation.
The joint device made up of two boats searching for the missing minor, have decided
to withdraw after spending two hours searching
the surroundings of the beaches of El
Recinto, Fuente Caballo
and
El Chorrillo
without the minor being able to be located.
According to sources consulted, the search will resume at dawn this Sunday.