Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 22nd of June 2017Case name: 2017_06_22-WM141
Situation: 12 travellers on their way from Tangier intercepted by the Moroccan Navy
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Western Mediterranean
Summary of the Cases: On Thursday the 22nd of June, at 9.51am, the Alarm Phone received a direct call from a boat with 12 travellers, which left from Tangier three hours earlier. The travellers sounded very distressed, so at 9.56am our shift team called the Spanish Search and Rescue agency Salvamento Maritimo. Over the following many hours we stayed in contact with Salvamento Maritimo, but as there were many boats leaving from Tangier on this day, it was hard to identify the boat we had been calling about. However, we learned from Salvamento Maritimo that many of the boats made it to Tarifa. In the meantime, we also tried to establish contact to the travellers to find out if they had been rescued. Only in the afternoon, at 17.34, did we manage to reach them, and learned that they had been intercepted by the Moroccan Navy, and that they were all safe but had been brought to the police station.
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