Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 12th of July 2019Case name: 2019_07_12-AEG543
Situation: 39 travellers attacked and intercepted by Turkish coastguard and 11 travellers stranded on the island of Strongily, rescued by the Greek coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:: On Friday the 12th of July the Alarm Phone was alerted to two distress cases in the Aegean region. The first case concerned 39 travellers who reported having been attacked and intercepted by the Turkish coastguard. The second case concerned a group of 11 travellers stranded on the island of Strongily who were eventually rescued by the Greek coastguard.
In the night between the 11th and the 12th of July, at 01:19am CEST our shift team received a call from a boat in distress in the Aegean Sea, close to where the river Evros/Maritsa flows into the sea. The boat was carrying 39 travellers, including 4 women and 15 children. According to them, Turkish authorities had shot at them, beaten them up, taken their engine away, intercepted them and brought them back to Turkey. We could not get in touch with the travellers afterwards and assume they were still in detention in Turkey.
At 7:35 am CEST our shift team was alerted to a group of 11 travellers (3 families including 4 children, 1 infant, 3 women and 3 men) who were stranded on the inhabited island of Strongily. At 8am we informed the port-police in Kastellorizzo (the nearest inhabited island). At 9.20 am the rescue was confirmed.
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