Arrest of Seven Persons, Including Four Foreigners, Suspected of Attempted Irregular Migration of the Medea Desert

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The National Security Department announced the arrest of seven people last Friday evening, including three Mauritanians and four foreigners, on suspicion of attempting to migrate irregularly to the Canary Islands in Spain via the sea. The police briefly posted it on Facebook said that the detainees had been arrested in a house in the Dakhla Zaina district of West Nouakchott State, and the four foreigners were in an irregular situation.

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In a statement published on its official page on Facebook, the police explained that the arrest had been carried out within a house located in the Dakhla Zaina district of Western Nouakchott, noting that the four foreigners were in an irregular situation inside the country. Foreign detainees had been detained for violating immigration laws, while the three Mauritanian nationals had been placed under the protection of their relatives, in coordina…