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15 Arrested in Spain for Smuggling Migrants on Jet Skis From Morocco
The Local ^ | 30 Aug 2015

Posted on 09/01/2015 12:58:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Fifteen people were arrested this month in Spain for smuggling Moroccan migrants into the country on water scooters, authorities said on Saturday, terming it a "very dangerous practice."

The revelation came as Europe's migrant crisis snowballed with Austrian police rescuing a group of dehydrated migrants found in a truck, days after the bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be Syrian, were found in an abandoned former poultry lorry.

"In August, 15 people were arrested for bringing Moroccan migrants to Spanish shores," the Guardia Civil, a paramilitary police force, said in a statement without specifying the nationality of those held.

In the last 72 hours alone "six water scooters were intercepted while depositing immigrants" off the coast of Tarifa on Spain's southernmost tip, which is separated from Morocco by only 14 kilometres (8 miles) of water.

Each water scooter brought over between two and three migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar and "posed a serious risk to the lives of immigrants ...who often don't know how to swim," the statement said.

Some people smugglers also bring in large quantities of hashish from Morocco, often weighing up to 30 kilogrammes, a source in the Guardia Civil told AFP.

One kilo of hashish from Morocco's Rif region has a street value of 1,600 euros ($1,800) in Spain.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: morocco; smuggling; spain
Jet Skis? If Spuds Mackenzie were a smuggler...
1 posted on 09/01/2015 12:58:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"In August, 15 people were arrested for bringing Moroccan migrants to Spanish shores," the Guardia Civil, a paramilitary police force, said...

Not for nuthin' but as long as they have ranks and uniforms all police forces are paramilitary organizations.

2 posted on 09/01/2015 1:00:07 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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To: nickcarraway

The need to stop them with laser beams . . . on sharks.


3 posted on 09/01/2015 1:00:13 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (http://www.freerepublic.com/~jeffchandler/)
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To: nickcarraway

Why is there no overwhelming demand to invade Muzzie countries?


4 posted on 09/01/2015 1:01:04 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: nickcarraway

Why is there no overwhelming demand to invade Muzzie countries?


5 posted on 09/01/2015 1:01:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Boy Scouts too.


6 posted on 09/01/2015 1:02:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Paladin2

Most of the Syrians are going through Turkey to get to Europe. So why aren’t they seeking refuge in the Muslim paradise of Turkey?


7 posted on 09/01/2015 1:04:56 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

You know why, the Koran tells them not to mooch off of fellow Muslims, but to mooch off of the infidel and expand the Caliphate.


8 posted on 09/01/2015 1:11:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CaptainK

Good Point. Turkey is NATO. That should be good enough. Why would muzzies want to go to a nonmuzzie place? Socialist Bribery?


9 posted on 09/01/2015 1:12:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: nickcarraway

Must have been drug dealers. Who else could afford it.


10 posted on 09/01/2015 1:16:06 PM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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To: nickcarraway

Not migrants nor immigrants .

Rather Moslems invading on Jihad.


11 posted on 09/01/2015 1:19:26 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: McGruff

Does Bentley make jet skis?


12 posted on 09/01/2015 1:22:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: george76

Not migrants nor immigrants .

Rather Moslems invading on Jihad.

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Exactly. This is an invading horde, a horde which needs to be met with firepower.


13 posted on 09/01/2015 3:04:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Hey, we should send them some Mexicans! they speak Spanish, they have a simular culture, Roman Catholics? They would fit in well! A lot better than islamic Death Cultists and Jihadists.


14 posted on 09/02/2015 4:08:08 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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