Justice for Pylos State Crime
First Published on The Press Project Amnesty International’s 2025 annual report on Greece Criminal proceedings were brought against 21 coastguard officers over the 2023 Pylos shipwreck. An unlawful three-month suspension of access to asylum was imposed on people arriving in Greece via North Africa, a discriminatory measure that resulted in mass detention in unsuitable conditions. A new…
By Yannis Souliotis and Renee Maltezou *First Published on Reuters ATHENS, Nov 6 (Reuters) – A Greek prosecutor has extended charges to four more senior coast guard officers over one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest accidents, a 2023 shipwreck in which hundreds drowned off the southwestern town of Pylos, legal sources said on Thursday. The charges follow an appeal by lawyers…
More than two years after the Pylos shipwreck—the deadliest in modern Greek history, with possibly more than 600 men, women, and children lost—clear answers about its causes remain elusive. In June, Solomon met with attorney Thrasivoulos Kontaxis at his office in Athens. Kontaxis is defending the 13 uniformed officers (the captain and crew) of patrol vessel PPLS-920, the only Coast…
Justice for the survivors of the state crime resulting in the Pylos shipwreck, and demand the end of pushbacks in the Mediterranean Sea on the two-year commemoration of the mass killing of more than 600 people, and of all lives lost since due to border violence. Two years ago, the Al-Mutawakkil, a fishing trawler (misidentified as the…
Approximately two years after the state crime off the coast of Pylos, which cost the lives of more than 600 people, 17 members of the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG), including some high-ranking officers and the then-commandant of the force—who monitored the Adriana’s course for over 15 hours without initiating a rescue operation—have been referred to a formal…
*First published on OmniaTV A joint investigation by omniatv and EFSYN, for the Pylos shipwreck. The piece of rope hanging from the bow of the fishing vessel points to its towing // The Hellenic Coast Guard captain did not submit the picture to the authorities // Attempts of the HCG’s leadership to cover up the towing Today, omniatv and EFSYN reveal…
*First Published on BBC Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece’s official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard. The Adriana went down in the early hours of 14 June 2023 in international waters – but within Greece’s rescue zone…
*Reposted from Refugee Support Aegean Granting of refugee status to survivors and supplementary criminal investigation The survivors of the Pylos shipwreck on 14 June 2023, whom we legally represent, along with most other survivors, were finally granted refugee status at the end of 2024, following persistent efforts, and while some of their asylum applications had initially been…
*First Published on ABCNews A top European human rights official has called on Greece to address allegations of negligence in a deadly 2023 migrant shipwreck off its southern coast ATHENS, Greece — A top European human rights official urged Greek authorities Tuesday to address claims of negligence in a 2023 boat disaster that killed hundreds of migrants off the coast…
Clear evidence of serious criminal liability among senior Coast Guard officers – Unacceptable interference by the Ministry of Shipping The series of serious and reprehensible omissions in the search and rescue duties on the part of senior officers of the Hellenic Coast Guard, which constitute clear indications of the existence of, inter alia, offences of deadly exposure…
