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The arrest was part of a criminal organization originating in Algeria, where captured immigrants who paid large amounts of money to travel on the boat.

Despite trying to hide among immigrants as another victim of human trafficking it was finally discovered by agents.

In the small boat carrying six children.

Again, the National Police has given a strong blow to the mafias who control the human trafficking from Algeria to our shores with the identification and arrest of one of the organizers of these arduous journeys, in addition to being an active part of the criminal organization he was ultimately responsible for the sponsorship of the boat from the African coast to our territorial waters.

Last July 11, the arrival of a ship was detected, carrying 16 citizens of Algerian nationality, once in the port of Cartagena, eight of the passengers patera, agents said they were minors, so quickly They were taken to Our Lady Rossell Hospital, where medical services in the first instance and then the coroner, certified that only six of them were under 18 years.

Started the first investigations by the Group III UCRIF of the Police Headquarters of Murcia and Local Brigade Aliens and Border Police Station of Cartagena, it could find that an important member of the criminal organization was traveling hidden in the other passengers, and that prior to her rescue she had gotten rid of any instrument and documentation that will be involved in the crime.

Once the researchers were able to gather the necessary evidence, they proceeded to arrest, being brought before a judge who ordered his immediate imprisonment.

Police officers were able to confirm that this individual charged 1000 euros for the transfer of migrants from the coast and Mostaghanem Chlef (Algeria), to our territorial waters, instructing each member should sit where, who had to get fuel to the tank engine as well as instructions on how to behave if the sea state worsened or what to say if they were intercepted by the Spanish authorities, the fact that some of the passengers were from inland areas of that country is given, so did not know n criminal organization swim and did not provide them any safety equipment or lifejackets.

Also agents of Immigration and Border Brigade managed to identify two other Algerian government involved in another second vessel, the same day arrival on our shores, who were immediately expelled from national territory as of July 31, 2015.

Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía Murcia