The National Police have so far detained a total of around 30 people as part of a secret police operation, which is being termed as a macro-operation, against human trafficking and irregular migration, linked to the arrival of boats travelling from the west coast of Africa to the Canary Islands, according to sources close to the investigation.
A large deployment of heavily armed police wearing balaclavas and bullet proof vests carrying automatic weapons, assisted by Europol, since Friday, have led to coordinated raids across the south of Gran Canaria, in particular the municipality of Mogán, and also on the island of Tenerife.
A large number of arrests have been made, many of the detainees are foreign residents who had lived here long enough to have already gained Spanish nationality, and among them a mixture of origins including Italians and Moroccans. The operation continues, and more raids and arrests have not been ruled out this week.
