One year since the wreckship of PylosIt was a crime, it was murder, the drowning of 600 refugees!
Tuesday 23 April 7pm, ROMANTSO, 3-5 Anaxagora Street, Omonia
Six hundred and fifty families in Pakistan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine mourn the loss of their loved ones who were on board the ship Adriana and ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea off Pylos on 14 June 2023.
The survivors of the shipwreck complain that their raft sank after it capsized after being forcibly towed by a Coast Guard vessel to be pushed back to Italy. We are on their side!
It was murder!
It is the most horrific racist crime on the borders of fortress Europe after WWII and we will not let it go unpunished!
The government of the New Democracy, the champion in covering up the crime of Tempi, is trying to cover up their responsibilities and those of the Ministry of Shipping and the Coast Guard in the crime of Pylos, this time placing the blame on nine survivors. 9 survivors are brought to trial on 21 May in Kalamata on charges of causing a shipwreck, migrant trafficking and criminal organization.
We stand by the victims, the survivors and their families who are seeking justice. To punish the real culprits, the government, the Coast Guard, Frontex.
For open borders for refugees, asylum and papers.
Closed border policies have cost over 20,000 drowned refugees in the Mediterranean since 2015. It is the policies that pave the way for the rise of the far right and fascists in Greece and Europe.
We must finally put an end to the horrors of murder at the borders! Refugees, women and children are welcome with rights and not with persecution.
We call on you to coordinate and act in unity:
No cover-up of the crime of Pylos, punish the murderers, vindicate the victims of the Pylos shipwreck! For open borders for refugees, asylum and papers for migrants and refugees.
Let us take the following actions:
Solidarity event-concert on Sunday 12 May 7pm at the basketball courts in Rouf to support the campaign for justice for the victims of Pylos.
Solidarity mobilization in Athens at 20 of May to support the judicial fight in Kalamata on 21 May at the trial of the nine refugees survivors of the Pylos shipwreck.
A demonstration in Athens on 14 June, one year after the crime of Pylos and actions outside Greek embassies everywhere.
Called by:
KEERFA, Survivors of the Pylos shipwreck, Pakistani Community of Greece “ENOTITA”, People of Letters and Arts