- Around 30 migrants were seen arriving at the coast of Aguadulce in a boat
- Bewildered beachgoers watched as the migrants jumped off the boat and began to run.
This is the shocking moment when dozens of immigrants jumped off a boat in front of surprised tourists after landing on a Spanish beach.
In a video captured on Friday, a group of about 30 migrants jump into the sand just meters from stunned sunbathers and joggers in Aguaducle, a city in Almería, in southern Spain.
After jumping off the high-powered speedboat, the men race toward it along the idyllic La Ventilla beach.
In the footage, a Spanish woman can be heard saying: “My God… right at the door of our house… how scary.”
He then proceeds to use a derogatory term to refer to immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
The video captured the moment when around 30 migrants arrived on the coast of Almeria in a high-powered speedboat as stunned locals and tourists watched.
A bewildered jogger could be seen running alongside the boat as it came to land on the sandy strip of the coast of southern Spain.
Beachgoers watched as the high-powered speedboat (left) came ashore.
Another woman is heard saying: ‘how sad… how shameful’.
Several swimmers and passers-by alerted the emergency services to report the arrival of the migrants, who disembarked in front of a residential area on the coast.
According to the local newspaper La Voz de Almería, the Spanish Civil Guard was able to locate about nine people, two of them minors.
The day before, another group of immigrants disembarked in Rodalquilar, also in Almería.
Of this group, about 10 people were identified by the Civil Guard. Among them were two women and five children. None required medical attention.
Sightings of immigrants arriving in boats are common in Spain.
In November, smugglers were filmed pushing migrants into fast-moving currents off Sancti Petri, near the city of Cádiz, resulting in the deaths of four young North Africans.
In 2017, a boat carrying dozens of African migrants landed on a Spanish beach in front of shocked tourists.
Footage from that moment showed the migrants jumping from a black inflatable boat and running across the sand on the beaches of Cádiz, in southern Spain, after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
The group managed to leave the beach before authorities arrived some time later.
A year later, around 50 immigrants landed on a crowded beach and ran across the sand of another beach at Zahora, in the province of Cádiz, near Cape Trafalgar, near where Horacio Nelson defeated the combined Spanish and French fleet of Napoleon.
Images taken by tourists and published in Twitter It showed the Africans jumping from their rickety wooden boat as it reached shore while a father on the beach pushed his children out of the way and two men interrupted a game of beach tennis.
After a quick operation, the boat started up again and the migrants ran away along the beach.
Illegal migrants seeking to enter Europe use several long and dangerous routes that are evolving as authorities try to stem the flow of new arrivals.
Most arrive by crossing the Mediterranean, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). So far in 2024, 64,180 migrants have arrived by sea through Greece, Italy and Spain.
Spain remains one of the main entry points for migrants to Europe, especially through the western Mediterranean, with ships leaving from Morocco and Algeria.
According to the European agency Frontex, Moroccans represent almost half of the people who take this migratory route.
At least 6,618 migrants died or went missing while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2023.
In the photo: Migrants of sub-Saharan origin receive medical assistance in the Canary Islands after trying to reach Fuerteventura by boat