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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…

Frontex: a public agency incapable of accountability*First

*First Published on Social Europe JOANNE KRUS and GEMMA BIRD 11th April 2024 As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect. The shipwreck near Pylos last June, one of the greatest modern tragedies in Greek waters, claimed more than 600 lives. In its wake, criticism of the operation in Greece of the…

The Trial Date for the Pylos 9 is Announced

On Tuesday 21 May 2024, the trial of the 9 defendants (the ‘Pylos 9’) from the shipwreck of the fishing vessel “Adriana”, that occurred on 14 June 2023 in international waters near Pylos, is scheduled to take place before the Three Member Felony Court of Appeals of Kalamata.  The nine survivors have been arrested and unjustly accused,…

Conclusions of the European Ombudsman on EU search and rescue following her inquiry into how the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) complies with its fundamental rights obligations in the context of its maritime surveillance activities, in particular the Adriana shipwreck

CORRESPONDENCE – DATE Monday | 26 February 2024CASE OI/3/2023/MHZ – OPENED ON Monday | 24 July 2023 – DECISION ON Monday | 26 February 2024 – INSTITUTION CONCERNED European Border and Coast Guard Agency (No further inquiries justified) Reposted from European Ombudsman Introduction On 14 June 2023 over 600 people drowned in the the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Pylos in Greece, when their boat – a severely overcrowded fishing…

Ombudsman calls for changes to EU search and rescue rules and a public inquiry into deaths in Mediterranean

PRESS RELEASE NO. 1/2024 – DATE Wednesday | 28 February 2024 *Reposted from European Ombudsman A European Ombudsman inquiry into Frontex’s role in search and rescue operations has shown that the current rules leave the EU’s Border and Coast Guard Agency unable fully to fulfil its fundamental rights obligations and too reliant on Member States to act when boats carrying migrants…

Decision on how the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) complies with its fundamental rights obligations with regard to search and rescue in the context of its maritime surveillance activities, in particular the Adriana shipwreck (OI/3/2023/MHZ)

DECISIONCASE OI/3/2023/MHZ – OPENED ON Monday | 24 July 2023 – DECISION ON Monday | 26 February 2024 – INSTITUTION CONCERNED European Border and Coast Guard Agency (No further inquiries justified) *Reposted from European Ombudsman On 14 June 2023, a fishing vessel (the Adriana) carrying an estimated 750 migrants capsized and sank in international waters off the coast of Pylos, Greece. In the subsequent search and rescue (SAR)…

European Parliament resolution of 7 February 2024 on the rule of law and media freedom in Greece (2024/2502(RSP))

*Reposted from The European Parlianment Available on more languages here The European Parliament, –  having regard to the Treaty on European Union (TEU), in particular Articles 2, 4(3) and 7(1) thereof, –  having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’), –  having regard to the European Convention on Human Rights and the protocols thereto, –  having…