When 13 Moroccan men jumped from a speedboat into the sea and ran onto Sotillo beach in the southern Spanish resort of Castell de Ferro, video footage of them arriving seemed pretty unremarkable.
What happened next, however, was extraordinary.
For, as the unwelcome visitors from north Africa tried to make a run for it, they were rugby tackled to the ground by ordinary holidaymakers in swimming trunks – and held until police arrived to arrest them.
Now the Daily Mail can reveal that the nine men who were detained by irate beach goers were immediately whisked off to a police station before being moved to a notoriously inhospitable secure unit.
In stark contrast to how migrants are welcomed to UK shores with four-star hotel stays at taxpayers' expense, the no-nonsense Spanish approach to illegal immigration means the men face being returned to Morocco within a matter of weeks.
