By Moira Lavelle and Vedat Yeler *First Published on Al Jazeera Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Pylos, Greece – As soon as the overloaded fishing trawler set off from Libya last month, the danger seemed obvious to Ahmed*, a 21-year-old Syrian. “The boat was too heavy,” he told Al Jazeera. “We were sitting next to each other,…
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…
*First Published on 49 Arab News LONDON: A boat carrying as many as 750 migrants that sank in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece was being towed by a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel at the time, survivors claim. A joint investigation by collaborative journalism organization Lighthouse Reports, The Times, Der Spiegel and El Pais also uncovered allegations…
Ιωάννα Λουλούδη, Bashar Deeb,Tomas Statius, Klaas van Dijken (Lighthouse Reports) *Αναδημοσίευση από Reporters United Ο ακριβής αριθμός των επιβατών του ναυαγίου που σημειώθηκε στις 02.04 τη νύχτα της 14ης Ιουνίου 47 ναυτικά μίλια νοτιοδυτικά της Πύλου δεν είναι ακόμη γνωστός. Ένας από τους επιζώντες σε επίσημη κατάθεσή του αναφέρει πως άκουσε τον καπετάνιο να κάνει λόγο για…
*First Published on 49 Arab News MALAKASA/KALAMATA: Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They recounted hellish conditions above and below deck, with no food or water. Some also said the tragic end, when it came,…
*First Published on Lighthouse Reports Greece tries to cover up its own role in the Pylos shipwreck by tampering with evidence On the night of 13 June, a vessel carrying around 750 men, women and children mainly from Pakistan, Egypt and Syria capsized in the Central Mediterranean, in Greek waters. The Greek authorities had been aware of…
*Αναδημοσίευση από OmniaTV Σε σημερινή ανακοίνωσή της η παράταξη της Εναλλακτικής Παρέμβασης Δικηγόρων Αθήνας επισημαίνει ότι το ναυάγιο της Πύλου είναι ένα έγκλημα που περιμένει να δικαστεί και ότι δεν υφίσταται καμία εγγύηση ότι η διερεύνηση θα είναι πλήρης και αξιόπιστη, εφόσον δεν τεθούν υπόψιν των ανακριτικών και εισαγγελικών αρχών οι εντολές που δόθηκαν στον κυβερνήτη του πλοίου του Λιμενικού Σώματος…
Families of those on board recall the heartbreaking farewells they shared as hopes of finding any more survivors vanish. By Moira Lavelle and Vedat Yeler *First Published on Al Jazeera Naeem Afridi last spoke to his brother, Hameedullah, on June 12 as he was travelling on a boat from Libya headed to Europe. “Hameedullah told me ‘Don’t worry. I’m just…
