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New Cabrera Rescue Lifts Balearic Interceptions to 114

Salvamento Marítimo with Guardia Civil units, including the CUCO helicopter, led coordinated operations across Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera.

Overview

  • Government officials reported a consolidated tally of 114 migrants intercepted across the Balearic Islands in the latest operations.
  • The most recent action involved a patera located about 29 kilometers south of Cabrera at 15:45 carrying 30 people of sub‑Saharan origin.
  • Earlier on Thursday, Guardia Civil intercepted a boat at Ses Salines in Ibiza at 10:15 with 19 people of sub‑Saharan origin aboard.
  • Since Wednesday afternoon, four additional pateras near Formentera and Cabrera brought 65 people, with groups of 15, 13, 17 and 20 described as of Maghrebi origin.
  • A French‑flagged sailboat rescued a young migrant who had jumped from a patera between Cabrera and Port d’Andratx, after which authorities escorted him to Palma and treated him as a minor.