The Ministry of the Interior has suspended the first repatriation flight to Senegal of immigrants arriving in boats to the Canary Islands since 2018, after it was due to take off from Tenerife North airport last night according to news agency Efe.
The flight, which departed from Madrid to come to Tenerife to pick up its passengers, had originally been scheduled to land at 8:35pm yesterday at Los Rodeos airport, where the Senegalese citizens to be returned to their country and the policemen who were accompanying them were to be embarked, before taking off towards Dakar at 9:35pm.
