No boats had been detected within the Balearics since 20 November, when 5 North African migrants have been rescued 40 miles south of the island of Cabrera and one other 18 have been reported lacking after leaping into the ocean. So far this 12 months, 367 boats have arrived within the Balearics with a complete of 6,849 migrants on board, in keeping with EFE’s depend based mostly on knowledge from the Ministry of the Interior and the Government Delegation. During 2024, 5,882 immigrants arrived within the area by sea, in keeping with the Ministry of the Interior’s Annual National Security Report.
The Minister of the Presidency, Coordination of Government Action and Local Cooperation, Antònia Estarellas, stated on Tuesday that dismantling every of the small boats that arrive locally prices round 850 euros. She made this assertion throughout a parliamentary response in Tuesday’s plenary session, the place she stated that, as of 15 November, 365 small boats had arrived on the Balearic coast in keeping with figures from the Ministry, though she added that it’s a ‘phenomenon that’s on the rise’.
As Estarellas defined, she can’t give an actual determine for the precise value of dismantling the boats as this isn’t throughout the competence of the regional authorities. However, she indicated that it’s yet one more value that have to be handed on to the residents of the Balearics, ‘no matter island they’re from, and yet one more instance of the federal government’s neglect and lack of will’ on this situation. The minister was responding to Vox MP Patricia de las Heras, who requested her about the price of eradicating and destroying the boats stranded on the coast.
De las Heras identified that the price of this motion may quantity to greater than €200,000 within the Balearics and stated that these boats are utilized by Algerian mafias that revenue from these journeys. Although the coasts have been stuffed with boats, ‘the environmentalists, or eco-warriors, are nowhere to be seen right here,’ she stated. The minister defined that this phenomenon is on the rise and, regardless of having approached the federal government, ‘we’re alone’, for which she criticised the central authorities’s ‘non-existent migration coverage’.
