A girl, Her Brother And Her Parents Among Flocks Of “Harraga” Arriving In Spain

Two days ago, a video showing a baby accompanied by a young man on a boat at sea, and posted on Facebook, shocked the residents of the popular neighborhood of Salhi Abdel Nour, known as the “Tiyar” in the city of Ain Temouchent (western Algeria).

The sources revealed to “Echorouk” that the video showed 10 “Harraga” (illegal migrants), hailing from several popular neighborhoods in the city of Ain Temouchent with one of them one carrying a baby in his hands on a makeshift boat in outer sea.

The sources said that the adventurers sailed off two days ago from the beach of Targa, and bent on making the sea crossing to Spain as part of illegal immigration.

The circulated video showed a baby girl of about five months, who was accompanied by her father and his four-year old son, as the father decided to go through secret immigration by sea to reach the Spanish coast.

Sources close to the family said that the latter’s decision to undertake this perilous sea crossing together with his two small children, was due to his precarious social conditions.

The video also showed a young man in his thirties sending a message to his mother telling her he had decided to secretly migrate to the Spanish coast owing to his desolate social situation.

This occurred a few days after the tragedy of a boat capsizing near the coast of Spain that killed a schoolgirl and young man, hailing from western Chlef province.