Spanish court refuses to release on bail 6 Moroccans in "Mallorca's escape case"

The Spanish National Court has refused to release on bail six Moroccans arrested in the Mallorca escape case, issued the Inca.

On November, more than 20 Moroccan passengers, managed to escape an airplane heading from Casablanca to Istanbul, in Palma de Mallorca airport, after one of them allegedly faked a health issue and force-landed the airplane.

Authorities have already arrested 16 passengers out of 24 persons who were involved in organizing the escape.

The last arresting operation took place last week in the Mallorcan town Sa Pobla, where Spanish police detained 4 passengers who were recorded, in a footage widely shared on social media, bursting out of the airplane into the airport with other passengers.

The Inca’s judge decision include the 4 recently arrested, as Spanish authorities suspect them receiving outside help, especially that the city where they were hiding is populated with a significant number of Moroccans.

12 other passengers on an Air Arabia flight were arrested on the same day of the escape and detained in Palma prison.

The Spanish Public Prosecution is requesting charging “the fugitives of Mallorca” of human trafficking, regulation of illegal immigration, rebellion, and chaos, as well as costing the Spanish airport big losses due to closing the airport after their escape.

The National Police’s Anti-Immigration Networks Unit (UCRIF) launched has launched an operation to locate “Mahdi J.,” the fugitives group’s leader.

The authorities are in permanent contact with the Moroccan consulate in Palma and officials at the Rabat embassy, as Moroccan authorities handed their Spanish counterparts on November 12 the photographs of the Mallorca’s case suspects.

The goal is to expand data sources on all fugitives on the plane, and even those who did not flee but participate in organizing and monitoring the escape’s plan.

Spanish Police suspects that “Mallorca’s escape” was planned on a Moroccan Facebook group called Brooklyn, as Brooklyn’s member posted in July a detailed escape plan similar to what happened in Mallorca on Friday, November 5.

The Spanish police continue to hunt the 9 fugitives who are still in the run. At least two of them boarded a ferry to Barcelona on 6 November, according to El Pais.