The Sixth Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will host a trial next Monday, November 13 against a man accused of commanding a boat that arrived in Lanzarote.
The precarious boat reached the island on April 3 of this year. According to the prosecution's indictment, the accused allegedly charged "various amounts of money to, at least, two migrants" to transfer them from Morocco to the Canary Islands. He would have done this after reaching an agreement with other unidentified people.
All this, "knowing that they were violating the rules on entry into the national territory" and that the people who arrived by that means would be in a regular administrative situation.
The Public Ministry assures that the accused was the captain of the boat that departed from the Alawi country to the coasts of Conejera. He also pointed out that the migrants were traveling without any security system, without life jackets, or food or water.
The Prosecutor's Office attributes to him a crime against the rights of foreign citizens and requests for him the penalty of eight years in prison, disqualification for the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and the payment of costs.