Woman Attempts To Smuggle 8-Year-Old African Boy Into Spain In Suitcase!!!

[Muhammed Zakir]

Woman Attempts To Smuggle 8-Year-Old African Boy Into Spain In Suitcase

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A Moroccan teenager tried to smuggle an 8-year-old boy into Spain by stuffing him in her hot pink suitcase, officials said.

Border control agents discovered the kid contraband Thursday when his outline showed up on the X-ray scanner, police told AFP.

The 19-year-old woman took the luggage across the border from Morocco to Ceuta, a Spanish-governed territory in Northern Africa. She seemed nervous and reluctant to cross the border, checkpoint agents said, so they x-rayed her suitcase.

“The operator noticed something strange, which seemed to be a person inside the case," a Civil Guard police spokesman said.

When the guards unzipped the fucisa bag, they found an 8-year-old boy curled up inside. He said his name was Abou and was from Africa’s Ivory Coast.

The 19-year-old, who was not related to the boy, was arrested.

Two hours later the boy’s dad, who is originally from Ivory Coast but now live in Spain’s Canary Islands, crossed the same border. Police arrested him, too.

The father said he had recently applied for family reunification, but was denied, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported. Police said the father likely paid the woman to smuggle the boy into Spain. However, the dad said he had no idea the boy would be stuffed into a suitcase.

The boy is currently in Spanish child protective services.

You can read more about human trafficking here.

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[Daniel91]

It's horribly but these people are really desperate, even ready to sacrifice their lives in order to come in Western countries and find better future for their families.
Western states would eventually have to do something to help those poor and frightened people, and should not longer close their eyes to the drama that takes place daily in front of their borders.
This is just one more proof of the inability of the EU to solve the truly serious political problems in its territory.

[Hamuki]

Wow...

This is sick.
I have seen stories from the US where mexicans were hiding below car parts and suffercated or were basicly cooked because they where in the so long.

Its sad to see this, but its kinda understandable since they just want a "normal" like most of us live.

[Hamuki]

It's horribly but these people are really desperate, even ready to sacrifice their lives in order to come in Western countries and find better future for their families.
Western states would eventually have to do something to help those poor and frightened people, and should not longer close their eyes to the drama that takes place daily in front of their borders.
This is just one more proof of the inability of the EU to solve the truly serious political problems in its territory.

The problem is that if we opened the borders then we would be flooded with people.
It would crash the economy.
It would kill a lot of people because they cant get shelter or food.
Crime rates would skyrocket because they would steal to survive.

[bryant.coleman]

It's horribly but these people are really desperate, even ready to sacrifice their lives in order to come in Western countries and find better future for their families.
Western states would eventually have to do something to help those poor and frightened people, and should not longer close their eyes to the drama that takes place daily in front of their borders.
This is just one more proof of the inability of the EU to solve the truly serious political problems in its territory.

If they can pay $10,000 per head to human smugglers and criminals, then definitely they are not "desperate" in my opinion. $10,000 is a very significant amount of money in Sub Saharan Africa. It is having the value equivalent to $100,000 in Europe or the United States. There is only one solution. Deport all these people, so that it will discourage the others who are planning the same.

[saddampbuh]

sure it wasn't bush meat?

[erikalui]

Most probably it's the boy's father itself who sold his son to this woman. Shame on him as a father.

Don't know how many children are sold daily in different countries and when parents do it to their kids, it's far more worse than when the kids get kidnapped.

[Daniel91]

It's horribly but these people are really desperate, even ready to sacrifice their lives in order to come in Western countries and find better future for their families.
Western states would eventually have to do something to help those poor and frightened people, and should not longer close their eyes to the drama that takes place daily in front of their borders.
This is just one more proof of the inability of the EU to solve the truly serious political problems in its territory.

If they can pay $10,000 per head to human smugglers and criminals, then definitely they are not "desperate" in my opinion. $10,000 is a very significant amount of money in Sub Saharan Africa. It is having the value equivalent to $100,000 in Europe or the United States. There is only one solution. Deport all these people, so that it will discourage the others who are planning the same.

You should ask yourself how they collected this money?
They sold their houses, everything they had or borrowed money from criminals.
They can't come back because they don't have anything more in their native countries and Europe don't want them.
Nobody wants them.
It's really shame.
Germany and Italy accepted a lot such immigrants and saved their lives.
It's time now that other countries follow and show their solidarity with victims from Africa.

 

[Chef Ramsay]

The way to simplify the immigration process, other than background checks, is to have incoming signs at border posts that relay that no entitlement services will be available upon entrance and then only the productive will be on the procession rolls.

[jaysabi]

The way to simplify the immigration process, other than background checks, is to have incoming signs at border posts that relay that no entitlement services will be available upon entrance and then only the productive will be on the procession rolls.

It's a popular narrative that immigrants just emigrate to get fat on unemployment in a rich country, but it's hardly true. They emigrate for opportunity that doesn't exist in their country. You're more likely to get someone who is going to work his ass off because he knows what true poverty is than many of the entitled folks living "in poverty" already in the west who'd rather not take a job that's "below them."

[bryant.coleman]

You should ask yourself how they collected this money?
They sold their houses, everything they had or borrowed money from criminals.
They can't come back because they don't have anything more in their native countries and Europe don't want them.
Nobody wants them.
It's really shame.
Germany and Italy accepted a lot such immigrants and saved their lives.
It's time now that other countries follow and show their solidarity with victims from Africa.

They shouldn't have sold their houses or borrowed money in the first place. There are 1 billion people living in the Sub Saharan Africa, and Europe can't accommodate all of them. Countries such as France, UK and Spain are already housing millions of Sub Saharan immigrants. If you want EU members such as Poland to do the same, then I am afraid that they don't have the resources for that.

[Daniel91]

You should ask yourself how they collected this money?
They sold their houses, everything they had or borrowed money from criminals.
They can't come back because they don't have anything more in their native countries and Europe don't want them.
Nobody wants them.
It's really shame.
Germany and Italy accepted a lot such immigrants and saved their lives.
It's time now that other countries follow and show their solidarity with victims from Africa.

They shouldn't have sold their houses or borrowed money in the first place. There are 1 billion people living in the Sub Saharan Africa, and Europe can't accommodate all of them. Countries such as France, UK and Spain are already housing millions of Sub Saharan immigrants. If you want EU members such as Poland to do the same, then I am afraid that they don't have the resources for that.

I understand your point but this people are very desperate and can't think rationally, they are very emotional and scared right now.
We shouldn't judge them because we don't understand fully their own situation.
It's much better approach (in the long term) to solve very bad economic and political situation in their own country, so that they don't need to go to Europe in the first place.
In short term, we should find solution for this people in EU.

[bryant.coleman]

It's much better approach (in the long term) to solve very bad economic and political situation in their own country, so that they don't need to go to Europe in the first place.

For that, two things are required:

1. A stable government
2. Eradication of government-scale and bureaucratic corruption.

Most of the Sub-Saharan African nations lack these two factors. So there is no use in investing in these nations, as 99% of the money will be either stolen or will be lost due to incompetence.

[Falconer]

Most probably it's the boy's father itself who sold his son to this woman. Shame on him as a father.

Don't know how many children are sold daily in different countries and when parents do it to their kids, it's far more worse than when the kids get kidnapped.

I don't think so
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the news said his father live in Canary Island, Spain. How can he sold his son to the woman, and brought the kid to Spain where the father do live.