Justice for Pylos State Crime
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…
By Karolina Tagaris *First Published on Reuters ATHENS, June 4 (Reuters) – Ahmed Alkwrab thought his ordeal was over last June when he survived one of the deadliest shipwrecks ever recorded in the Mediterranean Sea and finally set foot on European soil. Hours after a fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants capsized, however, the Egyptian housepainter found himself…
*First Published on Jacobin BY MOIRA LAVELLE VEDAT YELER After over 600 people died in a shipwreck last June, Greek police sought to incriminate the survivors. Last week they were finally acquitted, after a case that illustrated a worrying trend to cast ordinary migrants as members of human-smuggling networks. On May 21, nine men stood in a courtroom…
On Tuesday 21 May 2024, the Three Member Felony Court of Appeals of Kalamata examined the case against the ‘Pylos 9’. After a short hearing, and in accordance with the prosecutor’s proposal, the court found that the Greek State had no jurisdiction to prosecute the Pylos 9 for “participation in a criminal organisation” and “causing the shipwreck…
Our clients, nine survivors of the shipwreck off the coast of Pylos, were unjustly detained for eleven months in prisons, accused of serious crimes and stigmatized by the mainstream media, which, from the very first moment, not only failed to respect the presumption of innocence, but also published photos of them even from inside the hospital, with…
Rights groups also argue that the defendants’ right to a fair trial is compromised by ‘incomplete’ evidence. *First Published on Al Jazeera A Greek court has dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of refugees and migrants last year after a prosecutor said Greece had no jurisdiction over the site…
In mid-June 2023, more than 500 people died after the fishing boat they boarded capsized. *First Published on Al Jazeerra Athens, Greece – Nine Egyptian men accused of criminal responsibility in the Pylos shipwreck that led to the deaths of more than 550 people on June 14, 2023, will go on trial in Greece on Tuesday. The accused are…
