More than 40 people traversing the Mediterranean are said to have died due to the Greek coastguard's activities, which included forcing punctured vessels to go back out to sea
The Greek coastguard is responsible for the deaths of dozens of migrants crossing the Mediterranean who were forced to turn back or in some cases were deliberately thrown overboard, an investigation has found.
Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt were crammed into fishing trawler 'Adriana' bound for Italy from Libya that capsized off southwestern Greece on June 14 last year, even though the Greek coast guard had been monitoring it for hours.The catastrophe, one of the worst Mediterranean boat disasters on record, raised searching questions about how the European Union is trying to stem flows of migrants - and the actions of Greece's coastguard.
Rescued migrants find shelter at a depot, following a shipwreck offshore in Kalamata , Greece on June 14, 2023. At least 78 migrants drowned off southwestern Greece early on Wednesday after the fishing boat they were on capsized, local media reported A Cameroonian man who reached Greece told BBC investigators told how a man from the Ivory Coast drowned in front of him after being thrown back into the sea.
A Somali migrant claimed Greek officers zip-tied his hands before shoving him into the water off the back of a boat, while a man from Syria shared how several children drowned after the coastguard left them near Turkey in damaged rafts. Turkey in 2016 inked a deal with the EU to stop migrants and refugees crossing into Greece in return for some €6 billion - later increased to €9 billion - to provide infrastructure and humanitarian aid to the migrants it accepted.
Bodies of migrants are seen next floating debris after a sailboat carrying migrants smashed into rocks and sank off the island of Kythira, southern Greece Only 104 people survived the sinking of the Adriana, a rusty metal fishing boat smuggling up to 750 migrants from Libya to Italy. 'I wake up to nightmares. Even now, I swear by God, my body still hurts,' said an Egyptian survivor named Mohammed.Around 1,000 people, including survivors and activists, marched to parliament in the Greek capital on Friday, holding up a banner depicting a collage of photographs of the missing.Smaller rallies also unfolded in London, Paris and Berlin, while in the Pakistani city of Lalamousa, victims' relatives prepared a memorial ceremony.
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