The Civil Guard has located 22 migrants in the vicinity of Ibiza’s Playa d’en Bossa who arrived on Friday morning aboard a skiff.
All of them are of sub-Saharan origin and are in apparent good health, reported the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands.
The events took place at about 08.50 am and involved both agents of the Armed Forces and the Local Police.
Pateras in 2025
The arrival of small boats to the coast of Ibiza and Formentera has not ceased in the first month and a half of the year. In fact, this week 19 migrants were intercepted arriving to Formentera in one of these boats.
On the same day, four other boats arrived at the coast of Mallorca. So far in 2025, 445 immigrants have reached the Balearic coasts aboard 21 small boats.
In 2024, at least 5,994 immigrants arrived irregularly to the Balearic archipelago in small boats, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
