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They were arrested 7 members of criminal organizations engaged in trafficking in persons admitted to prison.
Were also detected 44 children who were subject to protection by the administration.
Last year 2014 have reached Cartagena a total of 232 people by boat type vessels, mainly from the Algerian province of Mostaganem.
Although still important influx of immigrants to our murcianas Constas, the trend is clearly negative, mainly due to different detection systems installed along the entire coast by the Government of Spain, and the tireless efforts of the Forces State Security, special and mainly Brigades National Immigration and Border Police, both specialized research groups such as the Border Service reinforced in the last two years nationally.
The 232 immigrants did in 2014 aboard 19 boats type patera, for the most part, pneumatic or fiberglass outboard of 35 to 60 hp engines.
Actually it is pleasure boats about five meters long, can accommodate three or four people and approved to sail a few miles from the coast.
Despite the poor characteristics and condition of vessels, to the considerable distance between the Spanish and Algerian coast (about 250 kilometers, 135 nautical miles), and sometimes dangerous sea conditions in vessels used for the trafficking, "organizers" tend to carry more than fifteen people, getting serious and grave danger the life of smuggled migrants.
The latter often do not even know how to swim when natives of interior and rural areas of Algeria, siéndoles not provided any safety equipment or any life jacket.
Among immigrants, a total of 44 were treated as minors, prestándoseles the mandatory custody and protection, being referred to the appropriate centers available to the Office of Children.
Then, once confirmed by the minority oseométricas tests, orthopantomographies by forensic medical services and practiced documentary efforts by the Immigration and Border Brigade of the National Police's more complicated investigations aimed at locating and delivery were performed child to family members or in Algeria, either in Spain or other countries of the European Union.
Thanks to joint research by the Brigades for Immigration and Border Cartagena and Murcia, throughout 2014 has been arrested seven members of the aforementioned criminal organizations, all of whom admitted to prison by court order, being even and some fulfilling the sentence imposed.
This type of crime is scheduled imprisonment of between four and eight years, after which the traffickers will be deported to Algeria.
Given the seriousness of the facts, favoring immigration and human trafficking are criminal types in which expulsion is not allowed as an alternative to a criminal conviction, making it necessary prior compliance in Spain of the sentence.
In addition to the seven arrested in 2014, during that year were also convicted by a final judgment of "pateristas" arrested by the police in 2013, who are serving sentences in Spanish prisons.
The last operation against these illegal immigration networks ended last November with the arrest of an Algerian citizen, responsible for organizing several trips from Mostaganem, having been charged with the same offense to two other members of the network, now in Algeria .
On this occasion, as usual in the modus operandi of such organizations, immigrants, young entirety and practice including four children, were captured in depressed areas of the Algerian province.
Later, after making required payments, amounts usually around 1,000 euros, were transferred to the beaches out where they are hiding in houses and abandoned areas pending improvements in the status of the sea and to avoid the Algerian patrol.
All this in order to start the long-awaited trip to the Spanish coast.
By the self Brigade Aliens, after being admitted to detention center and made the appropriate documentary procedures with the Consulate of Algeria, proceeded to make the required return of irregular migrants from the Port of Alicante, except organizers were imprisoned and minors protected.
Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía Murcia
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