Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 6th of November 2022
Case name: 2022_11_06_Eastern Med_1051
Situation: 15 people arrived on Lesvos as part of a bigger group, some of them stayed while others were pushed back to Turkey
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Eastern Mediterranean / Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
 
In the morning of the 5th November 2022 our team was alerted by 15 people, among them 8 men, 2 women and 5 children, who had stranded on Lesvos, in the north west of the island, in the area of Skoutaros.
They reported that they don’t have food, neither water. They were cold and some of them were in need of medical attention due to health problems. At 9:30 CET we alerted Greek authorities and several NGOs about their situation.

At 10:07 CET we received an answer from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) who declared that an MSF Team is going to the location to provide medical assistance to the people in need.

At 12:20 CET we received an updated location by the group and at 12:30 CET forwarded it via email to the authorities.

Two days later, on 8 November we could manage to get in touch again with the people and they explained that a part of their group (a family from Afghanistan) got pushed back from Lesvos to Turkey. We managed to bring them in contact with the Turkish NGO Multeci Der, while they were in a hospital in Çanakkale were 2 of their children received medical treatment, to follow-up on their legal situation in Turkey. Nevertheless we could not get a detailed description of the events at the 6th November from them.