Immigrants shipwreck: eleven Sub-Saharan survivors expelled from Morocco

TANGIER (Morocco) - Eleven sub-Saharan survivors of the sinking of a boat Saturday near the Spanish island of Perejil, off Morocco, were expelled from Morocco on Sunday night, we learned Monday from security sources in Tangier (north ).

•     "On the orders of prosecutors, the eleven African survivors left Tangier to 900 pm GMT (Moroccan time) during an operation of repression," the source said without specifying their destination.
  
      Typically, sub-Saharan illegal immigrants arrested in Morocco are escorted to the border with Algeria and then deported.
  
      Rabat applies a principle to deport illegal immigrants to Algeria, the last stop before entering Morocco.
  
      Besides the eleven survivors of the shipwreck, from Senegal and Niger, the judicial authorities have also proceeded the same day to the expulsion of eight Africans recently given back by Spain to Moroccan authorities.
  
      These eight illegal unrelated to the accident that occurred on Saturday off the coast of Morocco and Ceuta, Spanish enclave in northern kingdom, said the security sources.
  
      Saturday at dawn, a zodiac boat with 42 immigrant aboard probably Senegalese and Nigerian according to Moroccan security sources, 60 according to the Spanish Red Cross, had been wrecked while trying to reach the Spanish coast .
  
      Rescuers have recovered eight bodies (one man and seven women including one pregnant) and identified eleven survivors.
  
      
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.