Quelle: Alarm Phone
Alarm Phone witnessed armed attacks on 6 boats in the Aegean Sea
In the past two weeks the Alarm Phone witnessed awful and inacceptable forms of violence committed against travellers at sea. In the Western Mediterranean we directly witnessed how several groups of travellers were forcefully intercepted and detained, with one group being even deported to the Moroccan border to Mauretania. In the Aegean Sea, travellers informed us about six attacks on boats in Greek territorial waters. In all of these cases, armed and masked forces supposedly of the Greek coastguard beat travellers, stabbed their rubber boats and disabled or stole their engines. Afterwards, they would push them back and leave them behind in Turkish waters, in serious danger of capsizing. The human rights NGO Human Rights Watch also documented several such attacks on boats in the last couple of weeks.i