How to Save Money on Border Fees: Hide in a Car Seat

A 20-year old man from Guinea wanted to come to Spain so badly earlier this year that he hid inside the seat of a friend’s car.

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At the border crossing between Morocco and Melilla, Spain, the car with the stow-away was stopped by patrol. There, tucked carefully inside the passenger seat, was the Guinean man. The seat-shaped-human was arrested and kicked out of the country, and his two human-smuggling friends were arrested, too. However, the police said they ‘had to hand it to them’ for their ingenuity and creative approach.

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