00:00Before it broke apart, this boat was carrying people whose dream was to reach Europe.
00:06Now its ruins lie still on the beach in northwestern Senegal.
00:10The sinking is the latest tragedy along the dangerous Atlantic Ocean route,
00:15prompting authorities to renew warnings against irregular migration.
00:20We can understand young people's aspirations to live, the difficulties of daily life,
00:26the desire to make something of themselves, to help their family.
00:30Living is an option, but dying at sea must not be an option.
00:34And that is unfortunately often the result of these departures organized by traffickers who are outright criminals.
00:40They are the slave traders of modern times.
00:44They must be hunted down relentlessly and given the punishment they deserve.
00:49Along this route, thousands of people have died in recent years,
00:53trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands from West Africa.
00:57Yet many still try despite the danger, hoping to escape poverty and sometimes conflict.
01:04The Europe they are being sold is not their Europe.
01:07For them, their El Dorado is here at home.
01:10They need to understand that.
01:12So we must continue this awareness-raising work,
01:15but also work in a coordinated way with other countries in the sub-region,
01:19because we have had very good results in Senegal, at least in the first half of the year.
01:25But more and more departures are now taking place from other countries.
01:28All this needs to be organized.
01:30I received the Spanish minister barely a week ago.
01:33I conveyed the same message.
01:37Senegalese authorities also said Friday they had intercepted 142 migrants
01:42who were on a similar boat aiming to reach Spain.
01:45The group included 23 women, two babies and two other children.
