*First Published on BBC By Lucile Smith and Ben Steele, BBC TV Current Affairs The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water. The nine are among more than 40 people alleged to have died as a result of…
On 14 June 2023, the Mediterranean Sea witnessed its deadliest shipwreck in recent history. More than 600 men, women, and children lost their lives in this catastrophic incident. It occurred in international waters within the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone, designating Greece as the state responsible for initiating any rescue operations in this area. In the…
*First Published on InfoMigrants Alessandro Puglia June 14 marks the first anniversary of the tragic shipwreck near the Greek town of Pylos. More than 500 people are suspected to have died, although just 82 bodies have been recovered. One year ago, a fishing vessel carrying over 750 migrants capsized off the coast of Greece. Only 104 survived.…
*First Published on EUObserver BY ODAY AL TALAB, LONDON, 14 June 2024 Oday is a Syrian who lives in the UK. His brothers Mohammed and Riyadh fled Syria to Europe. They ended up on the Adriana, an overcrowded trawler that left Libya with an estimated 750 people from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt onboard, before sinking off the coast of…
Defence of Migrant Rights Across Borders Conference Mytilene – Lesvos, 12-14 June 2024 Justice for the victims and survivors of the Pylos state crime In the early morning hours of 14 June 2023, the overcrowded fishing boat “Adriana” sank in international waters around 50 miles from the port of Pylos, Greece. Hundreds of people, including all women…
On June 14, 2023, a fishing trawler that had sailed from Libya to Italy capsized about 47 nautical miles south of Pylos. It is estimated that 750 people were on board. iMEdD’s new audio documentary, Pylos: A Year On, reveals unknown details about what happened in the last hours of the fishing trawler, the exact circumstances under which…
Source: Alarm Phone Exactly one year ago, at 16:53h on 13 June 2023, we alerted the Hellenic Coast Guard to a boat in distress, near the coast of Pylos in Greece. There were over 700 people on board the heavily overcrowded boat called ‘Adriana’. They could have all been rescued. They could still be alive today. But…
Little progress has been made in investigating the shipwreck of an overcrowded trawler, the Adriana, off the coast of Pylos, Greece on 14 June 2023, according to Amnesty International and Human Right Watch. The boat was carrying an estimated 750 people, mainly from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt. Only 104 people survived, 82 bodies were recovered but only 58 identified.…
8 of the Pylos 9 are finally free. And the struggle continues, one year after the Pylos shipwreck. The trial of the 9 criminalized survivors of the Pylos shipwreck happened on Tuesday 21 May 2024, and the verdict was exonerating. The Three Member Felony Court of Appeals of Kalamata found that the Greek State had no jurisdiction…
Egyptian survivor Mahmoud Shalabi, 22, one of the 104 survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck off southwestern Greece, stands inside a warehouse, used as shelter, at the port of Kalamata, Greece, June 15, 2023. [Angelos Tzortzinis/Pool via Reuters] By Karolina Tagaris, Renee Maltezou and Maya Gebeily *First Published on Reuters Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown…
