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Friday 8 May 2015

9-Year-Old Immigrant Boy Smuggled Across Spanish Border In a Suitcase

Immigrant boy, 9, smuggled across Spanish border in a suitcase
Pictures have emerged from Spain showing the moment immigration officials discovered an eight-year-old boy hidden in a suitcase.
He was stopped trying to get into Cueta, Spain, where his a woman, 19, was spotted acting suspiciously.
Fortunately the boy, who said his name was Abou, appeared to be unharmed.
A spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard said: ‘This could have had a tragic end.’
It is believed they were trying to enter Europe from Morocco.
A woman in the Spanish Canary Islands has said that she was his mother and was waiting for her son’s arrival.

epa04737541 Handout picture provided by Spanish Civil Guard that shows the attempt by a Sub-Saharian immigrant aged eight years old in a suitcase trying to get in to Ceuta, Spain on 07 May 2015. The minor immigrant was caught due to the scaners in the border.  EPA/GUARDIA CIVIL / HANDOUT  HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
The boy was crammed into a suitcase (Picture: EPA/Guardia Civil)

More than 7,840 illegal entries were recorded in 2014 along the same route by Frontex, a slight increase on 2013 but less than the record struck in 2011 of 8,450.
On this migration route, more than half of the crossings concern the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Moroccan territory.
The proportion of migrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, usually in rubber dinghys, account for 45 percent of illegal migrants detected in this area.


epa04737542 Handout picture provided by Spanish Civil Guard that shows the attempt by a Sub-Saharian immigrant aged eight years old in a suitcase trying to get in to Ceuta, Spain on 07 May 2015. The minor immigrant was caught due to the scaners in the border.  EPA/GUARDIA CIVIL / HANDOUT  HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
The discovery shows the desperate measures migrants go to (Picture: EPA)

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