- Footage of the boats was recorded on Horcas Coloradas beach in Melilla, Spain
This is the shocking moment a Spanish Guardia Civil police boat hits a rubber dinghy carrying migrants, throwing the occupants into the water.
Video taken on Sunday at Horcas Coloradas beach in Melilla, Spain, shows a small motorboat carrying four African migrants, including a girl, being chased by a border ship.
After ignoring warnings from the Royal Marine Gendarmerie to stop, the Spanish Guardia Civil motorboat made a right turn and ran over the dinghy.
It causes the migrant boat to capsize, throwing at least one person into the sea. The government delegation in Melilla – a Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco – has since confirmed that no one was injured. RTVE News defeated.
According to local reports, the migrants were trying to travel from Morocco to Melilla.
Footage shows the moment a Spanish Guardia Civil police boat races after a migrant boat
As the migrant boat – with four occupants – turns, the border ship follows its movements
Next, the Spanish Guardia Civil boat can be seen sailing over the top of the small motorboat
A Moroccan NGO has already called for an investigation, while the government delegation in Melilla insisted that the Guardia Civil carried out a “normal procedure” to prevent the arrival of migrants to the coast.
It comes after dozens of sunbathing tourists watched in shock as 20 suspected migrants stepped out of a rowing boat on a busy beach on the Spanish islands earlier this month.
The ship entered the bay at around 6pm on Tuesday and stopped at the coastline of Cala Gran Santanyí, Mallorca, Spain.
Video footage shared on social media shows about 20 people, mostly young men, getting off the boat and walking in a line across the sand, dodging beach towels.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has also decided not to launch an internal investigation into the boat incident, Public report, which was heavily criticised by left-wing political parties EH Bildu and Sumar.
The Border Patrol’s maneuver causes at least one of the small boat’s occupants to fly into the air
One of the migrants, believed to be from Morocco, is seen plunging into the water
The Melilla government delegation confirmed that no one was injured
The Ministry of the Interior has confirmed that the four occupants of the boat have already returned to Morocco.
Sumar’s deputy spokeswoman Aina Vidal described the incident as a “human disaster” and an “unacceptable tragedy.”
“The disaster we have seen in Melilla is totally unacceptable, it is unacceptable, it is a human disaster and that is why we are undoubtedly waiting for an explanation from the competent minister,” he said.
In 2022, a migrant made history by becoming the first documented person to paraglide across Spain’s southern border with Morocco and onto European soil.
Two residents of the Spanish province of Melilla, who drove past the double fence, filmed the astonishing scene before calling the police.
But when officers arrived, the unknown migrant had already fled and had still not been found.
That same year, at least 24 people were killed when migrants tried to scale the enclave’s heavily fortified border fence.
Many undocumented migrants who reach Melilla come from as far away as Sudan, using the city as a stepping stone to mainland Europe after being transferred from overcrowded temporary accommodation centres.
The heavily guarded border between Melilla and Morocco is one of two land borders between the EU and an African country. The other is Ceuta, which is also a Spanish enclave.
The two parallel border fences in Melilla, near the road the paraglider flew over, are between 6 and 9 metres high and 12 kilometres long.
In previous attempts by migrants to enter the Spanish enclave, they hid in car bumpers and specially adapted spaces under passenger seats of vehicles.
They also risked their lives by crossing the sea on truck tires.