Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 16th of April 2021Case name: 2021_04_16-AEG784
Situation: Boat with 43 travellers close to Lesvos attacked and pushed back to Turkey
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Friday the 16th of April 2021 at 09.21 CEST the Alarm Phone shift team was contacted by a group of travellers who had been pushed back to Turkey. The travellers told us that that they had been on a boat with 43 people close to one of the Greek islands the previous night, when they were attacked by three people on another boat. The three attackersstole their petrol and threw it in the water, shouted at the travellers that they should “go back to Turkey” and attempted to make a hole in the boat of the travellers. As water was entering their boat, the travellers called the Turkish coastguard who came and rescued them and brought them to a police station. The travellers were already back in Turkey when they called us.
Last update: 01:09 Aug 25, 2021
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