Moroccan Migrant’s Body Found on Ceuta Beach, Civil Guard Investigates

The lifeless body of the young man, who was wearing civilian clothes, was transferred to the municipal funeral home for the purposes of the autopsy, even though it seems to be a migrant who drowned while trying to enter the autonomous city by swimming or on board a makeshift boat that capsized.

The Civil Guard has opened an investigation to establish a possible link between the discovery of this body and the arrival on the coast of Ceuta, last week, of a boat whose pilot had thrown the occupants into the sea. According to three of them who were rescued, the boat was loaded with migrants.

This body is the third recovered this year in the city, after the one found on January 13 at the Muelle de Poniente and that of another young Moroccan found on January 25 in the vicinity of the Muelle de España, inside the port of the city.