Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 24th of October 2019Case name: 20191024-AEG819
Situation: 30 travellers rescued by Turkish police near Foca.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On the 5th of September at 10:32 CEST we were informed about a boat with 85 people on their way from Turkey to Italy, their engine was broken and they were near the rocky shore of the Greek island Folegandros. At 10:36 CEST we established contact with the people on the boat, they said "help, help" but we couldn't communicate further as we didn't have a common language. While trying to find translation, we forwarded the information immediately to the Coastguard in Piraeus. Until 22:55 CEST we didn't get further information from the Coastguard nor could we reach the people on the boat. At 22:55 CEST the relative forwarded us an article which states that 80 people were rescued near Folegandros, we assumed it were the same people we were searching for.
On the 11th of September one person from the boat told us, they arrived back in Turkey. He desribed that the Greeks came in a big military boat. They took the people. The people were on this ship for more than a day. Sometime in the evening the Greeks switched off the lights of their ship and put the people in the water on the floating tents. It all happens in the dark. The people on the boat told us: "We were exposed to death". Then the Turks came and saved the people. So another pushback took place.
twitter:
https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1434545049652576257
Last update: 20:19 Oct 18, 2021
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