Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 21st May 2020Case name: 2020_05_21-WM463
Situation: 8 travellers brought back to Tanger by the Moroccan coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 17h44 of Thursday the 21st of May the Alarm Phone was alerted to a boat in distress carrying 8 travellers that had departed from Achakar, Morocco. As we did not have a GPS position, we tried to contact the travellers several times but the phone was not reachable. After seeing the information on the web that 8 people had been intercepted by the Moroccan coastguard, we called the Moroccan coastguard at 22h21 to confirm whether this could be our case. The officer confirmed that 8 travellers had been “rescued” and brought to Tanger but did not give us any further information such as place of departure. The following morning we received a message from the travellers confirming that they had been intercepted by the Moroccan coastguard.
Last update: 12:55 Aug 19, 2020
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