Justice for Pylos State Crime
*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…
*First Published on Reuters By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, April 5 (Reuters) – Nine Egyptian men who were on board a migrant boat that sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds of people, are to face trial next month, accused of people smuggling, Greek judicial sources said on Friday. The circumstances of the sinking of the Adriana in June…
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,…
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…
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…
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)…
Months after the tragic disaster that killed hundreds at sea, nine accused men languishing in prison insist they are innocent. *First Published in Al Jazeera By Moira Lavelle and Vedat Yeler Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Athens, Greece – Saeed* cannot understand why he is in the Avlona prison, a detention centre northeast of the…
*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…
*by The Open Assembly Against Pushbacks Lesvos The text “The Pylos Massacre” was published in Mytilene in August 2023. It was printed in both Greek and English, is available in different languages online and is free of charge. Its use is free for non-commercial purposes. Be sure to look into related published reports for more information. (more languages following…
