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On Saturday morning, the authorities found four of the five men who were to be captured and who were part of the group of 17 migrants who fled an army barracks in Tavira on Thursday, but have not yet been able to locate the only element. It is still on the run, even though the search engine remained active, added the SEF source.
The same source also said that the 16 migrants who fled and who had already been found “were taken back to the barracks” in Tavira, where they fled on Thursday, and where they will remain in the custody of the SEF.
On Friday afternoon, the Spanish Civil Guard found one of the migrants in Ayamonte (Spain) and, on Saturday morning, “four more in Castro Marim” were captured, and one of the men who participated remains to be located. on the run, he said. at the time the source of the Foreigners and Borders Service, referring to the migrant who remains a fugitive.
The SEF source had indicated on 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 on Thursday. in the morning.
On the day of the escape, nine migrants from the group were intercepted and three more on Friday.
The migrants who fled from the Tavira barracks “will not be heard again” in the courts on the recommendation of the magistrates of the Public Ministry of the respective counties “where they were detained and” will be handed over to the custody of the SEF, “said the same source to Lusa.
The 17 men who fled the Tavira barracks on Thursday belonged to a group of 28 immigrants who disembarked in the Algarve in September and were subsequently placed, by court order, in the custody of the SEF, pending expulsion from Portugal. for irregular entry. in the country.
The Minister of the Interior requested this Thursday the opening of an investigation into the flight of migrants, to know “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.
