- He picked up foreign citizens in different parts of Irún in exchange for financial compensation, moving them in his car to different locations in France
- After being arrested on July 2 and acknowledging the facts, two days later he was sentenced by a court in Bayonne to 15 months in prison and a ban on entry into the Gallic country for 5 years
According to the Spanish penal code, the National Police and the French police have arrested a man for crimes against the rights of foreign citizens, when he profited from migrants who wanted to cross the border from Irún to France.
The operation, carried out jointly by the Brigades of Foreigners and Borders of San Sebastián and Irún and the Office for Combating Irregular Trafficking in Migrants (OLTIM) of the French National Police, began when Spanish agents, after multiple surveillance over several months, managed to prove that a citizen of Moroccan origin was using his private car to pick up irregular migrants in various locations in Irún and transfer them to French territory in exchange for financial compensation.
These investigations were brought to the attention of the French National Police through the Hendaye Police and Customs Cooperation Center (CCPA), and after close collaboration between the police of both countries, on July 2, while transporting two other migrants of sub-Saharan origin, French agents arrested in Bayonne the investigator, who turned out to be a citizen nationalized in Spain of 51 years of age.
After being brought to trial in Bayonne, on 4 July he was sentenced by a Bayonne court to 15 months in prison and a ban on entry into France for 5 years.
As a result of the collaboration between the Brigades of Foreigners of San Sebastián and Irún and the OLTIM of the French police, in recent months it has also been possible to arrest four people for similar practices, having also been sentenced to prison terms.