An eight-year-old Ivory Coast boy has been smuggled into Spain from Morocco inside a suitcase.The boy, Abou, was found inside the case being carried by a 19-year-old woman into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, on Thursday.
When police opened the case, they found the boy in a terrible state.The boy, from Ivory Coast, is now in the care of authorities in Ceuta.The 19 year old woman is not related to the boy, she was paid by his father to carry the suitcase.
The boy’s father also named Abou lives in the Canary Islands and had hoped to be reunited with his son, he had traveled back to Ivory Coast to pick him up, having moved to Gran Canaria in 2013
The father then paid the Moroccan courier to carry the suitcase.
Thousands of people cross the Morocco-Ceuta border legally every day. Dozens more are believed to cross illegally — smuggled in the back of trucks, or hidden in secret compartments under cars or in their trunks. Others manage to scale a huge double fence, lined with anti-climbing mesh and patrolled by border guards.
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