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Thousands of Algerians try to cross to Europe, even though they face high fines. Within a week, the Algerian authorities picked up more than 750 migrants and recovered three bodies from the Mediterranean.
Thousands of Algerians try to cross to Europe, even though they face high fines. Within a week, the Algerian authorities picked up more than 750 migrants and recovered three bodies from the Mediterranean.
As the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday, several boats with 755 migrants were picked up off the Algerian coast from Sunday to Friday. On Monday the ministry had already announced that ten people had drowned and 485 migrants had been arrested in the previous days.
The majority of migrants who travel to Europe from Algeria are Algerian citizens. Despite a law from 2009 that provides for sentences of up to six months in prison for illegal emigrants, thousands of mostly young Algerians are making the dangerous journey.
