Africa-Press – Cape verde. Eighty-eight migrants, of the 90 who washed ashore on the island of Boa Vista, on 13 January, have already been repatriated in two military planes with special flights to Senegal. Two of them were detained by the National Police in Boa Vista and were brought before the court for allegedly being the “commanders” of the pirogue.
Between silence and tears, the immigrants left the Seixal pavilion where they were housed, and where they were assisted for 18 days, after having washed up on the coast of Boa Vista on January 13, aboard a pirogue that had sailed from Gambia, 25 days ago. before.
However, before the departure of the migrants, at the Aristides Pereira international airport, as reported by Inforpress, two of the migrants, alleged commanders of the pirogue, were detained at the National Police Command of the island.
According to the information collected, the detainees were presented this Wednesday, 1st, to the Court of the Comarca of the island of Boa Vista, but the coercive measures applied, for now, are unknown.
It should be remembered that on January 13 of this year, Cape Verdean authorities rescued alive 90 clandestine migrants from Gambia, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, and two corpses, which had washed up on the coast in a pirogue, at the Morro lighthouse. Negro, in the northern part of Boa Vista.
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