A 30-years-old Cameroonian reported that the civil guards arrested the eight illegal immigrants as they just arrived in the coast of Malaga (southern Spain). The Spanish police then put them on a boat and abandoned the eight sub-Saharans off the Moroccan coasts with their belongings.

    "They threatened, tortured and insulted us (..)", he said. His companion, an 18-years-old Gabonese said the Spanish authorities took all their belongings before throwing them in the sea.

    He expressed his gratitude to the Moroccan authorities for their support.

    According to the officials of the Hassan II hospital in Fnideq, the eight sub-Saharan Africans (four Cameroonian, Senegalese, a Chadian, a Ghanaian and a Gabonese) suffer particularly from hypothermia, dehydration and physical and mental trauma.

    The Moroccan government had strongly condemned these “inhuman and irresponsible acts” and called upon its Spanish counterpart to take all measures to avert such acts which a foreign ministry statement said do not serve the interests of the two neighbouring countries.