On 1 April, a precarious boat arrived at the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands. According to the Spanish Coast Guard, 55 migrants were rescued, including 53 men and 2 women.
On 31 March 2024, the body of a person of sub-Saharan origin was found at Almuñecar beach in southern Spain. After seeing the corpse, fishermen went directly to the emergency services.
On March 29, 2024, a video shows two black men being beaten by two police officers in Madrid. According to the media El Salto, anti-racist collectives have gathered in several cities in Spain to denounce the crime of racial profiling against racialized migrants.
On 28 March 2024, two wooden boats carrying 124 migrants, including children and one disabled person, arrived in the Canary Islands. Before being rescued by the Spanish Coast Guard, the crew crossed more than 160km of a perilous sea route from West Africa.
On March 22, 2024, 3 people perished, 2 survived and 7 disappeared when a precarious boat sank a few km off the coast of Motril. According to the Spanish Coast Guard, the boat had departed from Algeria.
On 17 March 2024, 131 migrants arrived in several precarious boats called “pateras” and were rescued off the coast of the Balearic Islands.
On 16 March 2024, the Spanish Ombudsman opened an investigation into the death of Sahd Karim. The young migrant of Moroccan origin died a few days after the end of a hunger strike he had started with a group of asylum seekers to protest against the long delays in their procedures.
On March 12, 2024, the media outlet La Verdad revealed that two people have been sentenced to prison terms and about twenty are under investigation by the Spanish justice system for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of the corpses of migrants. Employees of the judicial administration, in particular, have been singled out in this case of illegal transfer, in return for financial compensation, of the bodies of migrants to their relatives in Algeria.
