Agents of the National Police have arrested eight sub-Saharan migrants as alleged patrons of the boat that arrived at Puerto de los Cristianos on May 10 with 57 migrants on board after being located 17 nautical miles from the south of the island.
The agents displaced to the place interviewed the migrants, 13 said they were minors.
Once the information was compiled, after different interviews and statements by the embarked migrants, the agents identified eight of them as the alleged patrons of the boat and proceeded to arrest them, charging them with the alleged responsibility for a crime of favoring clandestine immigration.
The detainees, together with the report prepared for this purpose, were placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.
The actions were carried out by national police officers from the Provincial Immigration and Borders Brigade of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Provincial National Police Station.
