Shocking video shows police boat crashing over inflatable boat carrying migrants
A Spanish police speedboat chased d🗹own and ranꦡ over the top of a small inflatable vessel carrying four migrants off the coast of Morocco — sending them flying into the water and outraging local activists, according to stunning footage and reports.
The small migrant dinghy was cruising near Horcas Coloradas Beach in Melilla, a Spanish territory of northern Africa, on Sunday when the much lar💦ger Guardia Civil boat tried to block its path to the shoreline, .
The police boat then plowed into the inflatable vessel and skimmed over the top of it in a jaw-dropping move fi☂t for an action movie, the footage shows.
Four mig𓃲rants were tossed into the sea but quickly rescued and one was b💖riefly hospitalized in the nearby city of Nador, the paper reported.
The migrants — ❀who had allegedly been trying to enter the country “irregularly” — were later arrested, Spanish cops told .
Local activists and el𝓰ected officials demanded an investigation into whether the chase was properly handled.
Aina Vidal, a parliamentary spokesman for Spain’s left-wing coalition government of Sumar, calle💞d the collision an “intolerable human disaster.”
Jon Iñarritu, of the leftwing political group EH Bildu, also condemned the “sav♔age deed.”
The area is one of two enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast where the European Union shares a 🍬land border with Africa.
It has been hit by waves of attempted migrant crossings in recent years.
