#Greece's Ombudsman on the 2023 deadly #PylosShipwreck: "while criminal charges for several felonies have been brought against the 🇬🇷Coast Guard officers, the competent Ministry insists on abstaining from any disciplinary action, disregarding what the law dictates” #RefugeesGr
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#Greece: "4 senior figures in the 🇬🇷 coastguard, including its current commander, are to face criminal prosecution for negligent manslaughter in connection with a 2023 migrant boat disaster in which up to 650 people are thought to have drowned." #PylosShipwreck #RefugeesGr
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#PylosShipwreck:
„Die griech. Küstenwache ist mittlerweile angeklagt, den Fischkutter 87 Kilometer südwestlich von der Hafenstadt #Pylos auf hoher See abgeschleppt zu haben, worauf dieser gekentert sei.
Vor dem Marinegericht in Piräus stehen 17 Mitarbeitende.“
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#Pylosshipwreck is a stark reminder that:
🚩NGOs, human rights organisations, advocates, and all people of conscience must continue their efforts until no one loses their life simply because they are seeking asylum.
#Pylosshipwreck is a stark reminder that:
🚩Preventing these avoidable deaths requires only the political will to implement humane and effective asylum systems.
🚩EU and its member states have failed to implement concrete measures to prevent deaths resulting from their migration and asylum policies.
#Pylosshipwreck is a stark reminder that:
🚩Tighter border controls do not prevent people from seeking safety or a better life.
🚩The restrictive asylum and migration policies of the EU and its member states contribute to the loss of life at their borders.
#Greece #PylosShipwreck
"I'm very happy they are eventually being held accountable for all that they have committed, but until I see them in prison nothing has been done yet," he said.
"To be honest, the Greek legal system is very unreliable."
#RefugeesGr
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📢 #Greece: "17 Coast Guard officers are now facing prosecution for 4 criminal acts, & will soon appear before the investigating judge to testify regarding the #PylosShipwreck, during which 100s of #RefugeesGr died". 2 whole years after the shipwreck...
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Trifon Kondizas is, acc to the Ombudsman, one of the 8 Coast Guard officers allegedly responsible for the non-rescue orders in the #PylosShipwreck case, in which >600 #RefugeesGr died. The gov't appointed him as the new CG chief, interfering with the judiciary...
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"During my visit to #Greece, I called for accountability in the wake of the #PylosShipwreck & reports of #pushbacks. I stressed the need to strengthen indep. human rights monitoring of border control operations & to reinforce European solidarity."
#RefugeesGr
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📢 #Greece: One more revelation by "EfSyn" & @omniatv.com on the #PylosShipwreck: A cut rope on the bow of the fishing boat proves the boat was tied by the @HCoastGuard, leading to it's capsizing & the drowning of >600 ppl‼️The captain hid the incriminating photo from the prosecutor... #RefugeesGr
#Greece: "Leaked recordings challenge Greek account of deadly shipwreck |
Survivors later told the BBC that coastguards had caused their overcrowded fishing boat to capsize in a botched attempt to tow it & then forced witnesses to stay silent."
#RefugeesGr #PylosShipwreck
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Recent investigation reveals that the Hellenic Coast Guard withheld crucial operational communications from the Maritime Court prosecutor's investigation about #PylosShipwreck.
Key findings:
❗Missing communications
❗Unrecorded phone calls
❗Selection evidence submission
📢 As @EFSYNTAKTON & @omniatv reveal, #Greece's Coast Guard hid critical operational conversations from the Maritime Court prosecutor, concerning the #PylosShipwreck, in which more than 600 #RefugeesGr died. They conducted the cover-up operation even while collecting the dead...
#Greece: the Commissioner calls for accountability for human rights violations committed at the borders and intensified efforts to honour the human rights of #Roma | "The Commissioner, who liaises closely with the Ombudsman, notes his important findings" concerning #PylosShipwreck
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#Greece's gov't is flagrantly attacking the Ombudsman. They're accusing the ind. authority, inter alia, of interference in the judiciary concerning the #PylosShipwreck! They're the ones interfering, once again, w this comment that defends the Coast Guard!
#RefugeesGr
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1/2 The #GreekOmbudsman in a press release today found serious shortcomings by the Coast Guard in the handling of the #Pylosshipwreck in 2023, where 78 people were found dead after their fishing boat, allegedly holding 400 to 750 people, sunk in the Peloponnese.
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#Greece: "The Ombudsman’s inquiry into the #PylosShipwreck reveals a series of serious & reprehensible omissions in the search & rescue duties on the part of senior officers of the Hellenic Coast Guard. The report finds that the actions & omissions of 1/
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#Greece: "Closure of the preliminary investigation by the prosecution of the Piraeus Maritime Court on the #PylosShipwreck
The absence of any investigation into the responsibilities of the competent search & rescue bodies & the leadership of the 🇬🇷 Coast Guard is deafening" #RefugeesGr
and discuss with Greek investigative journalist Giorgos Christides and Drew Mitnick, program director of digital policy at Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Washington D.C. #TechAndMigration #SurveillanceTech #PylosShipwreck #HumanRights.
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It was recorded on the sidelines of the Shipwrecked Conference in Thessaloniki (June 2025), commemorating the deadly shipwreck off the coast of #Greece, where hundreds of asylum seekers drowned. You want to know how technology was involved in this? #TechAndMigration #SurveillanceTech #PylosShipwreck
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📢 #Greece:
@legalcentrelesvos.bsky.social:
"🚨🚨🚨 The Kalamata Court has rejected the application for compensation of the #pylos9 🚨🚨🚨
We are not giving up and will continue the fight for justice of the Pylos crime!"
#PylosShipwreck
#RefugeesGr
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“The Pylos shipwreck appears to be another tragic example of Greek authorities’ abdication of responsibility for saving lives at sea ...
Human Rights Watch
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#Greece
#BordersKill
#EuropeKills
