Portugal to take “some of migrants” from Ocean Viking
Portugal has guaranteed today that it will take in “some of the 234 migrants” from the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking that finally made port in Toulon, southern France today, after
537 Timor nationals ‘taken off streets’
The secretary of state for Equality and Migrations has said it has been possible to find accommodation for 537 Timor nationals (63 this week) who have been left in situations
Moroccan migrants trafficked through Portugal “could be recruits for European gangs”
A ‘highly placed’ security source has warned that the recent influx of Moroccan ‘boat people’, arriving on Portugal’s shores could be recruits for violent European gangs. Talking to Diário de
Manhunt scrambles to regather fleeing migrants as government admits its holding policy is in tatters
Authorities have finally admitted that the ‘policy’ of repatriating illegal migrants arriving by boat from Morocco onto Algarve beaches isn’t working. In the last few days yet another slew of
Eight migrants still at large as syndicate says SEF inspectors lack “training and means” to guard them
Nine of the 17 migrants who escaped from a military outpost in Tavira yesterday (click here) have already been caught, but eight remain at large. As the manhunt for the
Fifteen migrants ‘on the run’ after using bedsheets as ropes to escape Tavira outpost
A group of 15 migrants – one said to be infected with Covid-19 – are on the run after using bedsheets as ropes to escape through a window of the
Migrant ‘headaches’ persist as latest group sees more potential Covid casualties
Portugal’s headaches with undocumented migrants arriving in fishing boats on Algarve beaches persists this week with further people in the latest group to arrive showing symptoms of being infected with
Moroccan authorities ‘failure to act promptly’ plays into hands of traffickers bringing migrants to Portugal
Moroccan authorities appear to have played into the hands of traffickers bringing migrants into Portugal. Diário de Notícias reports today how nine of the 22 migrants that arrived in June
New boatload of North Africans arrives in Algarve: this time with one pregnant
Police launches have intercepted a further boatload of North Africans migrants arriving in the Algarve without documents, the majority of them carrying rucksacks/ travel bags. The novelty this time is
Moroccan migrants arrested after going on rampage in SEF detention centre
Eleven of the Morrocan ‘migrants’ awaiting deportation after entering Portugal illegally were arrested yesterday after going on the rampage in a SEF detention centre. The young men – part of