In this post, we gather the public statements of the Coast Guard’s spokesman Nikos Alexiou in the next 24 hours after the fatal shipwreck off Pylos. Big contradictions arise from these statements, with the most characteristic being the initial absolute refusal of any rafting of the “Adriana” boat (as the fishing boat with the hundreds of refugees…
Alarm Phone: i familiari delle vittime sono stati completamente abbandonati dalle istituzioni *Pubblicato per la prima volta da Melting Pot Europa Un aggiornamento di Alarm Phone rispetto al comunicato stampa diffuso a pochi giorni dalla strage.Il 14 giugno 2023, l’Adriana, un’imbarcazione partita dalla Libia e diretta probabilmente in Italia con centinaia di persone migranti a bordo, è affondata all’interno della zona greca di…
*First Published on Syria Direct ATHENS — On Tuesday, three Syrian families gathered at an Islamic cemetery in Komotini, northern Greece. They were there to bury three men: Riyadh Ghassan al-Talab, Muhammad al-Suwaydan and Hussam Zatima. Al-Talab, al-Suwaydan and Zatima, all from Syria’s southern Daraa province, were among the estimated 750 people on board a boat that sank in…
*First Published on Deutsche Welle Research conducted by a team of international journalists is casting doubt on the Greek coast guard’s account of the tragedy that cost hundreds of lives. Did the actions of the coast guard cause the boat to capsize? Less than a month after an overcrowded fishing trawler crammed with about 700 migrants sank off…
Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with Katy Fallon, Giorgos Christides, Julian Busch and Lydia Emmanouilidou *Originally Published on The Guardian Attempts by the Greek coastguard to tow a fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants…
Συνεργατική έρευνα των Solomon, Forensis, Guardian και ARD παρουσιάζει την πληρέστερη έως σήμερα αποτύπωση της πορείας του αλιευτικού σκάφους Adriana μέχρι και τη βύθισή του, που οδήγησε στον πνιγμό πάνω από 600 ανθρώπων υπό ελληνική και ευρωπαϊκή εποπτεία. Έγγραφο αποκαλύπτει ότι, σύμφωνα με συστάσεις της Frontex, το σκάφος του Λιμενικού όφειλε να καταγράφει. *αναδημοσίευση από Solomon Τα…
*First Published in Solomon A collaborative investigation by Solomon, Forensis, The Guardian and ARD presents the most complete tracing, to date, of the course that the fishing vessel Adriana took until it ultimately sank, causing over 600 people to drown − while under the supervision of Greek and European authorities. A document reveals that according to Frontex…
By Imogen Piper, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Claire Parker and Elinda Labropoulou *originally pubished in The Washington PostJuly 5 at 10:00 a.m.717 The earliest of more than a dozen distress calls came the morning of June 13. On a boat overpacked with migrants, water had run out and the situation was deteriorating. Yet the Greek coast guard did not call for a high-priority rescue operation.…
Hundreds of people died when a boat carrying migrants capsized on its way to Europe. Eyewitnesses raise serious accusations: were Greek officials to blame for the disaster? And what role does the “smuggling mafia” play? Die Welt reconstructs the events of the tragedy. *First Published on Worldcrunch PYLOS — The drama began on the morning of Friday, June 9, 2023.…
*First Published on The New York Times By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Karam Shoumali Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Athens and Brussels. Karam Shoumali reported from Berlin. From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast of Greece in a slowly…
