Desperate Migrants Caught On Camera Trying To Enter Spain On Jet Skis

Desperate migrants have been caught on camera trying to illegally enter Europe on the back of jet skis.

Six aquatic motorbike pilots were arrested in the last week for allegedly ferrying the migrants, who’d paid them up to 4,000 Euros each, across the 9-mile wide Strait of Gibraltar between Morocco and Spain.

Spanish Guardia Civil officers reportedly filmed the pilots taking the migrants from the north African coast to a popular tourist beach in Tarifa, near Cadiz.

Once deposited on Spanish sands, the migrants tried to blend in with tourists.

The crossing takes around 15 minutes. Some seven migrants were also detained in the operation.

The nationality of the alleged smuggler pilots, who carried up to two migrants on their water skis at a time, is unknown.

But it’s the latest alleged attempt by people smugglers to bring migrants across from Africa into Spain, according to local media.

Earlier this month, another Moroccan migrant suffocated after he tried to sneak into mainland Spain by hiding inside a suitcase for a five-hour ferry crossing.

And the crisis is escalating across the continent, as in recent days long lines of Syrian refugees have arrived in Greece and Serbia.

(Video credited to YouTube/Guardia Civil)