Calls for inquiry as video appears to show Guardia Civil boat knocking at least one person out of dinghy bound for Spain

Calls for inquiry as video appears to show Guardia Civil boat knocking at least one person out of dinghy bound for Spain

Human rights campaigners in Morocco and Spain have called on Spanish authorities to launch an investigation after a video appeared to show a Spanish police boat briefly mounting a small dinghy carrying people towards the coast of Spain.

The incident took place on Sunday as a vessel carrying four people approached the Spanish semi-exclave of Melilla. The video appeared to show the larger, more powerful Guardia Civil patrol boat veering towards the Zodiac inflatable, making several manoeuvres before skimming over the top of the boat, causing at least one person to fall out of the small vessel.

  • mods_mumEnglish
    726·
    4 months ago

    I’m getting down-voted for suggesting border protection is a nuanced issue. What a reddit moment.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      4 months ago

      No you are downvoted for suggesting that executing people on sight, just for crossing a border, is a nuanced issue.
      The normal thing to do is to arrest people.

      In the 80’s people in Poland were hostages of a totalitarian system, and you may have suffered a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      4 months ago

      I think it’s more the position you take that the moral stand on killing people at the border is nuanced.

      Killing people for approaching your border is always been wrong. It’s not like they’re coming over in tanks.

      Stop them, lock them up, send them home. If a couple of them make it past you it’s not the end of the world.

      The only reason this boat did what they did is because they didn’t think they were being observed.