Greek coasts accused of over 2023 migrant shipwrecks

The Maritime Court in Greece collected 17 coastal organizations in the deadliest disk on migrants in the Mediterranean Sea decade.

Up to 650 people were afraid of drowning when the overpaid Adriana fishing boats sank near the pilos, from the Greek coast, in the early hours 14. June 2023. years.

The survivors later told the BBC that Greece coasts made that their boat saved them to try to pull him in some, and then the witness’s drooling.

“It only brought us two years to come to these accusations, although so many people testified what happened,” One of the survivors, the Syrian man we called Ahmad, said Monday.

The Greek authorities are always denied claims against them.

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Prosecutorial Court in Piraeus found that he should face criminal charges.

Among them is the captain of the Coast Guard, LS-920, which is charged with “provoking a shipwreck”, which led to death “at least 82 people”.

This corresponds to the number of recovered bodies, although it is considered to be an additional 500 people, including women and children who were all under deck.

Disaster happened in international waters – but within the Greek rescue zone.

The then head of coastal protection and the Supervisor of the National Coordination Center for Search and Rescue in Piraeus are among the four officials accused of “exhibiting others in danger”.

Captain LS-920 is also charged with “dangerous interference of maritime transport” as well as “failure to provide assistance” migrant ship.

The crew of the ship is charged for “simple complicity” in all acts that allegedly commit captain.

The ship with Obaltoguard follows Adriana 15 hours before he sank.

Libya left it in Italy with about 750 people on board. Only 104 of them survived only.

We investigated from the date of disaster and our series of findings gave a serious doubt about the official Greece version of the event.

Within a week We received shipping information Which challenged the request that the Migrant ship was not in trouble and so it was necessary to be saved.

A month later, the survivors told us Obalapy made their ship sink in catastrophic efforts to pull him and then coerced to testify to silence.

Last year, The case against nine Egyptians was expelledIn the middle of the claim that the Greek authorities declared them.

Earlier this year, Audio shots appeared The further caused the official Greece version of the event.

We first met Syrian refugees, with whom we called Ahmada and Musaab to protect his identity, a month after a disaster.

They said each paid $ 4,500 (3,480 lb) to a place on board.

Ahmad’s younger brother was also on board and did not survive.

Musaab described to us the moment when – he stated – the Greek coasts caused their ship sank.

“They attached the rope on the left,” he said. “Everyone moved to the right side of our boat to balance. Greek vessels moved quickly, they joked our boat to turn around. They were constantly dragged that they drank him for a pretty distance.

The men claimed that once on land, in the Kalamata port, the coast said that she survived to “shut up” when they started talking about how the Greece has caused the disaster.

“When people answered that the Greek coast for the coast was the cause, the examination official asked the interviewer to examine the respondents to stop saying,” Ahmad said.

He said officials shouted, “You survived death. Stop talking about the incident, don’t ask more questions about it.”

Today Ahmad – who now lives in Germany – said he felt illuminated charges that were brought.

“I’m very happy to eventually consider everything they committed, but until I see them in prison, nothing has done,” he said.

“Being honest, the Greek legal system is very unreliable.”

The Joint Law, which presents the survivors and victims of disasters said that the decision to continue the case against 17 coastal protection was a big step forward and justice done.

In the statement, “almost two years after the shipwreck, the Prosecution and the main investigation for the misdemeanors of 17 members of the Coast Guard,, is a significant and self-evident development in the victim’s revenge and the delivery of victims.”

There are 17 men who are now accused of the Deputy Prosecutor Piraeus Naval Court in the next week.

The court will then decide whether to send them a complete trial or discard accusations.

It is not immediately clear what penalism they could have applied to be guilty.

Greece has previously told the BBC that its coastal guard fully respects human rights and saved more than 250,000 people at sea last decade.