AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Migrants paraglide over Spain's Ceuta border fence — one dead, another vanishes after landing
Illegal immigrants are now flying over Spain's fortified border fence into the enclave of Ceuta on paragliders supplied by people smugglers, and the Spanish government spent months denying it was happening. A sub-Saharan migrant was filmed Saturday evening gliding from a Moroccan mountainside over the 20-foot border fence and touching down at the Benzu viewpoint […] The post Migrants paraglide over Spain's Ceuta border fence — one dead, another vanishes after landing appeared first on American Almanac .
Illegal immigrants are now flying over Spain's fortified border fence into the enclave of Ceuta on paragliders supplied by people smugglers, and the Spanish government spent months denying it was happening. A sub-Saharan migrant was filmed Saturday evening gliding from a Moroccan mountainside over the 20-foot border fence and touching down at the Benzu viewpoint in Ceuta, the tiny Spanish territory on the North African coast opposite Gibraltar. He disappeared moments after landing. Police have not found him. One day earlier, a second sub-Saharan man attempted the same crossing near the Benzu breakwater and plunged into the Mediterranean. His body was pulled from the water around 8 a.m. Friday. The Civil Guard's own union called it the…Open