{"id":118387,"date":"2015-05-22T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=118387"},"modified":"2015-05-22T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:04:53","slug":"boy-smuggled-to-spain-in-suitcase-granted-temporary-residence-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=118387","title":{"rendered":"Boy smuggled to Spain in suitcase granted temporary residence permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ivorian was discovered curled up in the case as it passed through a security scanner<\/p>\n<p>An 8-year-old boy who was found hidden in a suitcase as he was being smuggled from Morocco into Spain was granted a temporary residence permit from the local government Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Adou Ouattara from the Ivory Coast was discovered when police scanned the suitcase at a checkpoint in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, on May 7, reports the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Interior Ministry office said Ouattara\u2019s temporary visa is good for one year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114859\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/potd-suitcase-x-ra_3296612b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114859\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/potd-suitcase-x-ra_3296612b.jpg\" alt=\"The figure of an eight-year-old boy is seen inside a suitcase on a Spanish civil guard scanner screen on the border between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave Ceuta, Spain. A 19-year-old woman was arrested for the attempted smuggling of the boy, who was checked by medics and handed over to juvenile prosecutors office, according to authorities\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/potd-suitcase-x-ra_3296612b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/potd-suitcase-x-ra_3296612b-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The figure of an eight-year-old boy is seen inside a suitcase on a Spanish civil guard scanner screen on the border between Morocco and Spain&#8217;s north African enclave Ceuta, Spain. A 19-year-old woman was arrested for the attempted smuggling of the boy, who was checked by medics and handed over to juvenile prosecutors office, according to authorities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The boy\u2019s father, Ali Ouattara, was arrested on charges of human-rights abuse for trying to have the boy smuggled across the frontier, but his legal representative insists the man knew nothing of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Francesco Luca Caronna told AP that Ouattara, who lives legally with his wife in Spain, believed his son was traveling in a car with a visa that had been paid for abroad.<\/p>\n<p>A Moroccan woman who was carrying the suitcase was also detained. She is apparently not a family relative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Time.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ivorian was discovered curled up in the case as it passed through a security scanner An 8-year-old boy who was found hidden in a suitcase as he was being smuggled from Morocco into Spain was granted a temporary residence permit from the local government Thursday. Adou Ouattara from the Ivory Coast was discovered when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":118390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-118387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}