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He was a 15-year-old teenager who sailed on a boat bound for Europe to make his dream come true. “He died after having problems with food.” Dad stopped.
Senegalese police arrested the father of a teenager who died on the high seas on a boat he had embarked on to emigrate to Europe, where he dreamed of being successful as a footballer, a source close to the investigation indicated on Wednesday.
The 15-year-old boy’s father paid about 250,000 CFA francs ($ 448) to a human trafficker who was to smuggle him to Spain, where another smuggler allegedly transported him to Italy to enroll in a football school.
Doudou’s tragic fate has shocked Senegalese public opinion at a time when emigration is causing criticism in this country for the loss of human capital and initiatives on social media are multiplying to stop it.
The boy, who was playing football at a training center in the tourist resort of Saly, near the capital Dakar, set sail in mid-October for the Iberian Peninsula.
But “he died after having problems with food” during the trip, the source close to the investigation, who did not provide more details on the death, told AFP.
The Senegalese press explained that Doudou began to feel ill, died and then his body was thrown into the Atlantic Ocean.
“The father was arrested on Tuesday by the gendarmes of Mbour (near Saly) for manslaughter and complicity with the smuggling of migrants,” added the same source.
According to the International Organization for Migration, dozens of Senegalese drowned in the Atlantic after the barges they were traveling on to try to reach the Canary Islands were wrecked.
The Senegalese authorities, however, deny this figure.
More than 1,500 migrants were intercepted off the coast of Senegal during the latest
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