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Spain: Increase in detentions in the Strait

01 September 1998

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There has been an increase in the number of arrests by the Guardia Civil of people trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar by boat. In the first 6 months of 1998 the total reached 2,807, as against 3,148 detained in 1997. The number of craft intercepted was 339 in 1996, 399 in 1997, and 289 in the first half of 1998. At least 38 people drowned off Morocco on July 6 when their boat capsized. The Civil Guard estimates that at least 200 migrants could have drowned on the Spanish side of the Strait in the first seven months of 1998, while ATIME, the Moroccan Immigrant Workers' Association, maintains that around 800 have drowned in Moroccan waters in the same period.

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