Such is the desperation of people to get out of North Africa
A border guard thought the young woman with the wheelie suitcase looked nervous and he was right. When the suitcase was placed in the luggage x-ray at the border crossing from Morocco into a Spanish enclave, a young boy was seen stuffed inside. The boy, 8, is from the Ivory Coast. It is not clear how the 19-year-old woman is related to him. A few hours later, the boy’s father was arrested while passing through customs. A native of the Ivory Coast, he lives in the Spanish Canary Islands and wanted to smuggle in his son to join him Earlier this week, a 23-year-old Moroccan migrant was found dehydrated in a container in the port of Melilla, another Spanish enclave in Morocco. He had spent four days trapped without water and without food.
