Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 31st of May 2019Case name: 2019_05_31-AEG534
Situation: Alarm Phone alerted migrant groups in distress in the Aegean Sea
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Friday the 31st of May 2019, the Alarm Phone was alerted by a contact person to a boat in distress and on its way to Chios Island. The boat had run out of fuel but the people could already see the church on the island. There were 25 people on board and our contact person had lost contact with them. We informed the Greek coastguards at midnight about this situation. Unfortunately, we were never able to establish direct contact to the migrant travellers. The Greek coastguards informed us at 00.50am that they had sent out a patrol boat that had, however, not found the people. At 1.10am, the Greek coastguards stated that the people had probably been returned to Turkey. At 3.45am, the Greek authorities confirmed that they were back in Turkey.
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