Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 9th June 2021Case name: 2021_06_09-WM628
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted to 28 people in distress in the Alboran who were intercepted and brought back to Morocco.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of case: In the night between the 9th and 10th of June 2021, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of 28 travellers in distress in the Alboran Sea. The travellers had left from the Rif region around 12 hours previously and were travelling on a grey rubber boat. The relative had lost contact to the travellers, and our shift team was never able to establish direct communication with the boat. At 00.35 CEST we informed the Spanish search and rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo about the distress situation, forwarding all information we had. However, later in the morning the relative told us that the travellers had been intercepted by the Moroccan Navy.
Last update: 09:37 Dec 20, 2021
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