The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try next Wednesday two Gambians accused of a crime against the rights of foreign citizens. The trial was scheduled for February 15, but will finally be held next week.
According to the prosecution's indictment, they are A.T. and A.N., both of Gambian nationality, with no criminal record and in pre-trial detention for the case since May 2023.
The Public Prosecutor's Office accuses them of agreeing with other unidentified people to charge "various amounts of money" to at least two migrants to take them with them to the Canary Islands.
The precarious boat in which they were traveling with 46 other people left the coast of Morocco and arrived in Lanzarote on April 19, 2023, around 4:15 p.m.
The precarious boat, as is usual in these cases, "lacked any security system, as well as life jackets, food, water, thereby endangering" the migrants.
For this reason, the Public Prosecutor's Office requests eight years in prison for both, special disqualification for the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and payment of costs.
