€13,000 from Pakistan and El Hierro: Bangladeshi mafias exploiting 'la ruta canaria' for Asian migrants

Historia de Imrama la que ha tenido acceso EL ESPAÑOL bajo la premise de mantener su anonimoto, es la de una de las Say 65 people Pakistan que han llegado recently en un cayuco al puerto de La Restinga, en la isla canaria de El Hierro. Un hecho sin precedents — only in 2021, when three Pakistanis arrived in Fuerteventura, a similar incident happened — que puto en alerta a todas lass, desde el Minister of Internal Affairs sick Frontex, European Border Control Agency.

La mafia bangladesa

El precio de llegar desde Pakistan sick las Canary Islands don't say 13,000 euros —en ocassiones, también la propia vida— y detrás del viaje no está una agency sino una criminal cross-border organization origin Bangladesh. Unidad Central de Redes de Immigración y Falsedades Documentales (UCRIF) de la National Police Explore Las Palmas, 2022. new bangladeshis que, de la misma manera que ha sucedido ahora con los 65 Pakistanis, llamaron la atención de las authoridades fronterizas.

Various statements, consult with agents UCRIF se fueron aproximando poco a poco a una plota que ponía al descubierto el negocio de las mafias say Illegal immigration little hand West Africa. “They contact people of Pakistani origin who want to emigrate from Bangladesh to Europe. Y tras el pago les trasladas, through India y los Arab Emirateshasta Mauritania en avión”, evident during investigation.

“In Mauritania, they are hoping for the help of a person who once lived in the African country and has connections with them. immigration control little hand Aeropuerto de Nouakchottque les facilita la entrada”, precisely la misma fuente. hotel ownership by members of a criminal organizationque les exigen un nuevo pago for “extraordinary expenses”.

Comienzan is a counterer debt por la que, usually they have to start work in the capital of the Islamic Republic. This is the point where the alleged head of the organization was revealed. un bangladeshi nickname The brain, que, various testis protegidos, es el encargado de gestionar “todo” desde Nouackchott. The owner of several restaurants in the capital, Fuerza a los migrants a trabajar para él con el fin de poder solventar esa deuda mentioned earlier.

After the migrants raised enough money to march, the people in charge of the organization – all Bangladeshis based in Mauritania, rekordemos – subcontratan cayucos de subsaharianos que van a marchar hasta las Islas Canarias. Cobran, through intermediación, 200 euros per person. They do this despite knowing that the trip is dangerous, as there are no security measures in place and Spain's entry law is completely vulnerable.

A new route to Asia

“The arrival of migrants from countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan is a sign of this Illegal traffic networks are adapting rutas a la realidad sobre el terreno”, he affirms Chris Buroskysay the porter Frontex, Guardia de Fronteras y Costas is an agency of the European Agency European Union. Antes era muy común ver a personas procedencias de Pakistan he Bangladesh By flying to countries like Turkey or Libya, they try to enter Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, using airports in the Middle East.

“Perhaps, después de que países como Tunisia y Libia tomaran medidas energicas contra las redes delictivas de contrabando este año, algunos migrants estén utilizando ahora la ruta canaria “como una nueva opción”, sentence Burowski “pequeñas incursiones” asiaticos a través de las Island Canarias des hace, al menos, tres años.

According to official data, 68 Pakistanis y 14 Bangladesh habrían entrado irregularmente en la European Union a bordo de tres náuticas subcontradas por esta red. It is the cooperation of several protected witnesses and the declaration of arrepentido, todos llegado en una de estas embarcaciones, ayudaron a los efectivos de la National Police start research; que, later en manos de la Audiencia Provincial de Las PalmasIt ended with the arrest of a 45-year-old man and the identification of those responsible in Mauritania and Bangladesh.

Last October 16 una Familia Afghanistan de diez members llegó también a El Hierro en un cayuco provenient de Mauritania. They fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took over in 2021, staying in several countries before making their way to the Canary Islands, along with people from Pakistan, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania and Gambia. Todavía es pronto, sostenien las authorities, necessary results. But la llegada de los afganos get an answer mode of operation useful for los bangladeses.

New arrivals are expected in the Canary Islands Asian migrants Coming from Mauritania, changing the typical migration routes of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. With miles of coastline, less police control and closer proximity to islands than other countries like Senegal, the Islamic Republic mafia paradise: As for the Bangladeshi criminal organization, which has individuals and connections between Dhaka, Delhi, Dubai and Nouakchott, it is estimated that they generate higher profits from the illegal immigration 'negocio'. million euros