Spain: Reprieve for Smuggled Boy Who Was Found Inside a Suitcase
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Version 0 of 1. The government on Thursday granted a temporary residence permit to an 8-year-old boy from Ivory Coast whom a woman tried to smuggle into Spain in a suitcase. The boy, Adou Ouattara, was discovered when the police scanned the suitcase on May 7 in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. The Interior Ministry’s office in Ceuta said the boy’s residence permit was for a year. The boy’s father, who lives legally with the mother in Spain, was arrested on charges that he tried to have the boy smuggled into the country. The father’s lawyer said the man knew nothing of the plan, believing that his son was to be brought in by car with a visa he paid for abroad. A Moroccan woman unrelated to the boy was carrying the suitcase. She was also detained. |