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Pateran , köptes i Almeria 2006. Jag (Adriana) fick uppdrag från Jette Sandahl, och trafficking grupp att hitta en patera och försöka köpa den. Först hade jag kontakt med polisen och Läkare utan gränser. Där fick jag veta att under tiden pateran är bevismaterial är omöjligt att köpa dessa. Men de rekommendera titta i en skrotfirma. Då, Manolo Rodenas, som är expert (i bilolyckor) i MAFPRE, en stor försökringsbolag i Spanien, började se över olika skrotfirmor. Han hittade den som museet köpte i Almanzora (norr om Almeria stad, i Almeria provinsen).
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Patera is a short, rustic boat used for fishing. But pateras have sadly become known as tools for primarily North-African people trying to find a better life in Europe - symbols for a European dream. An avalanche of people has used these boats to reach Europe, particularly the Canary Islands.

Most often there is an organized group selling the ‘passage’ to the better life, but there are also people leaving their homes spontaneously on their own.
If not discovered by the Guardia Civil and returned to the original countries, they will become illegal immigrants in Spain or possibly later in Europe.
The perfection of new technology used by the Spanish coast guard is making the short crossing via Gibraltar increasingly difficult and people are now seeking the longer and more dangerous passing to the Canary Islands and Andalucía.
Due to the poor condition of the boats, the strong Mediterranean currents, and the changing weather conditions many people never reach their hopes and aspirations alive-..

This patera comes from Almeria in Southern Andalucía.
Supposedly it was left at the Almeria coast in 2004, having, according to witnesses, carried around 25 people to land. The police normally burn the boats that are found without people, but in this case, there were witnesses and some of the passengers were identified, so the boat became part of a judicial process. Supposedly the police was also able to identify the trafficker.

Collected in 2006, in connection to the Trafficking exhibition by Adriana Muñoz
I was in Almeria in 2006. There, I have contacts since many years, among other with medecins sans frontiers and with a lawyer from the Izquiera Unida union.
When a patera comes, the police confiscate it. If they find some people coming in them, so they send them back to Africa.
After the police have confiscated the pateras, a trial start, during this time, the patera is a piece of evidence. After the trial, many of them leave in a scrap yard.
The patera that Världskulturmuseet bought was found by Manolo Rodenas, who works as expert in car accidents for one of the biggest insurance companies in Spain.