Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 7th of Mai 2018Case name: 2018_07_05-AEG385
Situation: 14 travellers attempt to cross Turkish-Greek land border, one dead person
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Monday, 07th of May 2018, at 1:31pm, we were informed by a contact person about 14 people that had tried to cross Evros River from Turkey to Greece. One person had died in the attempt. The group was back in Turkey and requested Alarm Phone to contact the authorities to find the dead body. The travellers sent a GPS position of where the body was located. They also sent a picture of the ID card of the dead person.
At 1:55pm we called the local police in the nearest town Didymoteicho and passed the information. We also sent an e-mail to the police with the GPS position and the picture of the ID card.
At 3:44pm we called the police again, but we didn’t find out any news on the search. At 5:00pm we called again. We were informed that the location of the body was only accessible by boat due to severe floodings in the area. They would assemble a rescue team that would leave next morning by boat to find the body.
During the next days we contacted the police in Didymoteicho several times but couldn’t finally confirm the recovery of the body.
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