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Spain: Migrants die

01 January 1995

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The week before Christmas a Dominican woman living in Bilboa died when she threw herself out of a window after receiving official notification to leave the country. In the same week a man from Giunea (Conakry) died when a boat on which they were stowaways docked at Santurzi harbour. The ship had previously called at harbours in Russia, Germany and Belgium they had been locked in a cabin to stop them going ashore. This same procedure should have been followed when the ship arrived in Spain but just two hours after docking they were found on the quay - one died later in hospital and the other faces expulsion.

The Spanish Commission on Aid for Refugees (CEAR) has taken out a private prosecution on grounds of negligence against the captain of the ship.

Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi (Spain).

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