Dramatic Footage: Spanish Police Block Unlawful Immigrants by Severing Their Boat in Half | The Gateway Pundit

It’s a video making waves throughout social media.

Spanish nationwide police on Sunday intercepted a ship carrying migrants trying to illegally attain Spanish territory in North Africa, truly severing the migrant vessel in a collision, the U.Okay. Telegraph reported Wednesday.

And whereas there have been, unbelievably, no critical accidents, the pictures have brought about a storm in our on-line world.

In line with The Telegraph, the Spanish boat was a part of the nation’s Guardia Civil, patrolling the coast off Melilla, a small Spanish enclave bordering Morocco in North Africa.

It was chasing a ship carrying 4 passengers and trying to cease it from reaching floor when the collision occurred.

In line with The Telegraph, these on board the migrant vessel have been rescued instantly. Just one required temporary hospitalization.

A spokesman for a celebration in Spain’s left-wing coalition authorities known as the incident an “insupportable human catastrophe.”

Reactions to the video ranged from congratulating the authorities for the undeniably harsh measure to criticizing the extremity of the transfer.

“That’s the way you cease unlawful immigrants from illegally crossing into your nation,” declared a social media publish printed by Turning Level UK, a British offshoot of the conservative American group Turning Level USA.

“Everybody has had sufficient,” wrote Tommy Robinson, a British conservative political activist.

The migrants’ boat appeared to have originated in Morocco.

In line with the left-wing British publication The Guardian, the Moroccan Affiliation for Human Rights “violent and harmful.”

And Kenneth Roth, a former government director of the group Human Rights Watch, used a social media publish to name the police motion “dangerously aggressive.”

Moroccan authorities have mentioned they’re investigating the encounter, in accordance with The Telegraph.

Spain has apparently determined there isn’t any must, the publication reported.

“Spain’s two enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla, share the one land borders of the European Union with Africa,” The Telegraph famous. “The enclaves sporadically expertise waves of tried crossings by migrants attempting to achieve Europe.”

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.