{"id":432136,"date":"2025-09-17T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:51:09","slug":"spain-arrests-19-on-suspicion-of-torture-and-murder-after-50-disappear-from-migrant-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/432136\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain arrests 19 on suspicion of torture and murder after 50 disappear from migrant boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Survivors told police that some of their fellow passengers began &#8220;attacking dozens of people, beating and abusing them in various ways&#8221;, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In some cases, they threw migrants into the sea alive and refused to rescue those who fell in by accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suspected killings were also documented &#8220;simply because some people protested or expressed their dissatisfaction with the conditions of the voyage&#8221;, the statement said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One male passenger died in hospital after being found seriously ill when the vessel was intercepted, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those on board included people from Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All 19 suspects are in pretrial detention facing charges of facilitating irregular immigration, homicide, assault and torture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain is one of the frontline entry points for irregular migration into Europe, with most entering via the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost 47,000 migrants reached the archipelago in 2024, setting a record for a second year, but numbers have been far lower so far this year, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivors told police that some of their fellow passengers began &#8220;attacking dozens of people, beating and abusing them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-432136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115221855208030927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}