“Tomorrow they will transport hashish”

Many of them attempt to achieve their feat by swimming. Sources of Civil Guard assures EL ESPAÑOL that “there is a on average one corpse per week. Just today we recovered the body of a floating child. He was no more than 16 years old. “It’s horrible.”

Sometimes this is due to hypothermia. Others to starvation. Others drown… And to reach Europe, many young people risk their lives cross the border by paraglider.

“The immigrant achieved his objective,” report these sources. According to the information processed by this newspaper regarding paragliding jumps, the new way to reach Spanish territory from the neighboring country, in Ceuta Five thefts were detected.

They spotted the first two months ago approximately. And what’s more, it was recorded and uploaded to TikTok.“Europe or death” » was the sentence that accompanied the video, where several young people appear at the controls of an improvised hang glider.

It is assumed that one of the boys accomplished his feat, given that the agents found the remains of the paraglider on Spanish territory, but not its pilot. Concretely, they launch from the Beliones mountain to the slopes of Fort des Piniers.

The mafias, behind

“This phenomenon is something new. The immigrant wants to achieve his objective, that’s what it’s about, and he intends to achieve it at all costs,” say sources from the Armed Institute, who They suspect there are mafias behind these “dangerous” trips.

As published by the Moroccan newspaper Al-Akhbar, A few days ago, the country’s authorities Five men arrested as members of a criminal organization who organized these trips, in exchange for significant financial sums.

The leader of the group is accused of make and sell parachutesas well as flight coordination. This subject is the only one they keep in prison, since the other four remaining have been released.

Possible entry of medicines

Although these flights involve a high degree of risk and the materials with which the parachutes are assembled are fragile, Benemérita sources do not exclude that they carry with them “drug backpack”.

“It is a method that immigrants use today to achieve their main objective, which is to cross the border and reach Spain, but who knows, maybe tomorrow these young people will leave equipped with a backpack with 30 kilos of hashish on their back“, consider these sources.

However, the heavy weight of the transport and the body of the young man added to a backpack loaded with narcotics would make this “objective” even more difficult and would further endanger the lives of these young people, because they are non-motorized flights.

Even if “nothing is excluded”, uniformed agents know that the entry of drugs into Spain “is generally other ways this involves less risk.

Young people paragliding jump from a hill in Moroccan territory “which forms a V” with the Spanish border, where they reach “also an elevated area”.

some even “they tried it at night. You see this during the day because it’s happening right under your nose. At night, it’s even riskier. They were launched once,” they add.

From the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC), they cry to the sky for this “new method” to cross the border. They demand an increase in staff numbers and that their profession be considered “at risk”.

The association describes the phenomenon of cross-border hang gliding as “unusual”: “Let’s hope they’re not here to stay.”.

Paragliding in the neighboring town

Already in 2022, paragliding flights have been observed in the neighboring town, Melilla. An immigrant managed to gain access to the self-governing city by overcoming the six-meter-high border fence that separates it Morocco of Spain.

According to publication Efe, Sources from the Government Delegation of Melilla reported that two citizens who were traveling on the ring road witnessed the entry of the immigrant. “Brother, he’s skydiving, damn!”said the men watching the flight.

The two witnesses informed the Operational Service Center (COS) of the Civil Guard Command of Melilla to report the entry of an immigrant on a paraglider near the Nano River. An armed Institute patrol went to the scene, but did not locate the immigrant.

Avalanche 2022

Three years ago, the Spanish-Moroccan border was the silent witness to one of the most tragic episodes the region has ever known. Approximately, 2,000 immigrants were trapped in a “mousetrap” of which a hundred did not come out alive.

Of the 2,000 people who came down with the intention of crossing into Spanish territory, around 1,500 reached the barrier. But only 133 of them ultimately crossed the Spanish border..

The sub-Saharans tried to cross it first through one of its corners, where there is a ditch parallel to the wall. They tried to break it there, but seeing that it was no use, they went to the border post. There were about 500 of them using a radial to cut the fence..

There they found themselves at an impasse. Meanwhile, Moroccan agents surrounded them from behind, according to police sources. This is where the avalanche would later occur. “They were crushed to death on the fence when they are surrounded from behind.

Two years later, as published by EL ESPAÑOL, a report on the Melilla fence tragedy proves that the Moroccan army was behind the Melilla fence tragedy that occurred on June 24.