Frontex: Spain becomes a new main route

Frontex: Spain becomes a new main route

World July 7, 2018 09:03

brussels - The head of Frontex, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union, warns of a new main route for migrants to Europe. 'If you ask me what my biggest concern is, I will tell Spain', says Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

In June about 6000 illegal border crossings from Africa were counted in the western Mediterranean. 'If this number continues to rise, this route will become the most important,' Leggeri said. About half of these migrants were Moroccans, the others came from West Africa.

According to Frontex migrants in Niger, a transit country, have already been offered an alternative route for several months to travel to Europe via Libya via Morocco.

Leggeri spoke for the plans for international housing in Africa, so that no one can expect to be taken to Europe after his or her rescue. 'If this automatism no longer exists, we can successfully combat the criminal business model', said the Frenchman about the centers to where rescued people could be returned.

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