On 8 October, the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, praised Morocco’s help in the fight against illegal immigration to Europe during a meeting with the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita. Mr Bourita also expressed Morocco’s willingness to repatriate unaccompanied minors situated in European Union countries and called on EU countries to remedy the shortcomings in their legislation on the return of minors.
On 7 October, skipper Thibaut Vauchel-Camus and his team went to the rescue of a boat that had been drifting for five days in the Strait of Gibraltar, rescuing sixteen men who had set sail from Algeria and finding the body of a 22-year-old young man.
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