Illegal Immigration: Border X-Ray Reveals 8-Year-Old Boy In Suitcase
In a clear case of attempted illegal immigration, a sub-Saharan African boy, thought to be around eight-years-old, was found curled up and hiding in a suitcase at the border between Morocco and the North African Spanish territory of Ceuta. Images of the x-rays clearly show the boy hidden inside the case.
According to the Spanish language news service, 20 Minutos, a Moroccan woman attempted to smuggle the boy into Spain at around noon Thursday at El Tarajal on the border between Ceuta and Morocco. On the x-ray at border control, the boy could clearly be seen, curled up inside the suitcase.
La Guardia Civil localiza a un niño subsahariano de 8 años dentro de una maleta en Ceu… http://t.co/YHYEMvMDd7 pic.twitter.com/aU8xFOoNfA
— Ceuta 24 horas (@Ceuta_24h) May 7, 2015
Twitter translation: The Civil Guard found a sub-Saharan boy of 8 years hiding in a suitcase at the Ceuta border.
It was a 19-year-old Moroccan woman that was attempting to take the child across the border in the suitcase and, according to Spain’s Civil Guard, they have since located a woman from Ivory Coast who holds a temporary residence permit in the Spanish Canary Islands.
Eight-year-old boy found curled up inside case in attempt to smuggle him into Spain. http://t.co/ipJQLl2DJP pic.twitter.com/wIAHYWAZuK
— The Local Spain (@TheLocalSpain) May 7, 2015
The woman in the Canary Islands has admitted to being the mother of the boy and that she had been awaiting his arrival, even though she knew this was a case of illegal immigration into the country.
La Guardia Civil localiza en la frontera de Ceuta a un niño subsahariano de 8 años den… http://t.co/oMs5hNLmwI pic.twitter.com/vy1oVl0gq1
— Ceuta 24 horas (@Ceuta_24h) May 7, 2015
Tweet translation: The Civil Guard on the Ceuta border found an 8-year-old sub-Saharan boy in a suitcase.
According to the Local, social services are now caring for the unnamed boy while his mother and the Moroccan woman who attempted to smuggle him into the country are both under arrest.
This isn’t the first story of attempts to smuggle people across various borders in cases of attempted illegal immigration. The Inquisitr has reported recently on a Georgian man who attempted to smuggle a woman inside a suitcase across the border into Turkey.
There was, previous to this, the story of a French pensioner who attempted to smuggle his new young Russian bride across the border between Belarus and Poland in a suitcase while riding on a train.
In this latter case, however, it was not considered to be illegal immigration as under the EU Schengen laws, his wife could merely have been seated quite safely next to him across the border.
[Photo: Ceuta CC by-SA 2.0 hiroo yamagata]
