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This Saturday, police authorities found four of the five remaining men to capture the group of 17 migrants who fled an army barracks in Tavira on Thursday, said a source from the Foreign Service (SEF).
After the Spanish Civil Guard found one of the migrants in Ayamonte (Spain) on Friday afternoon, today “four more were captured by the GNR in Castro Marim”, with only one of the men who was part of the escape. disappeared, he said. source of the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) to the Lusa agency.
A Portuguese source from the SEF indicated this Friday that the man found in Spain was located by the Spanish authorities in Ayamonte, the town closest to the border with the Algarve, about 40 kilometers from Tavira, from where the group had escaped in the early morning. . Thursday.
On Thursday nine were intercepted and during the day on Friday the authorities located three more migrants.
The migrants who fled from the Tavira barracks “will no longer be heard” in court “on the recommendation of the magistrates of the Public Ministry of the respective counties” where they were detained, the same source told Lusa.
“They will be handed over to the custody of the SEF,” he added, referring to the elements already captured, which belonged to a group of 28 migrants who disembarked in the Algarve in September, and who were later placed, by court order, in the custody of the SEF. pending expulsion from Portugal for irregular entry into the country.
On Thursday, the 17 migrants fled the headquarters of the Tavira detachment of the 1st army infantry regiment, where they awaited the execution of the court order and were in quarantine, after two of them were diagnosed with covid-19 after entry irregular in Portugal.
The group that disembarked on September 16 without documents on Deserta Island, in Faro, was made up of 28 migrants: 24 men, who settled in the Tavira barracks, three women, one of them pregnant and a minor.
The three women were installed in the Santo António Housing Unit, in Porto, while the minor was handed over to the Faro Family and Juvenile Court.
The Interior Minister asked this Thursday to open an investigation into the flight of migrants, to investigate “the circumstances of said flight and possible disciplinary responsibilities of elements” of the SEF and the PSP.
On the same day, Eduardo Cabrita, said that Portugal is discussing with Morocco, at an advanced stage, a legal immigration program, which it hopes to conclude soon.
This was the sixth illegal landing on the Algarve coast that involved migrants from North Africa.
The previous one had occurred in July, when a group of 21 men, presumably Moroccans, landed on the island of Farol, also in the municipality of Faro.
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