Accusations against Greece rise after boat disaster

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On 14 June, a fishing boat carrying irregular migrants in worldwide waters 47 nautical miles from Navarino within the Peloponnese Peninsula of Greece capsized, 78 individuals misplaced their lives and 104 individuals have been rescued and dropped at Kalamata Port.

Aleksis Tsipras, the chief of the Radical Left Alliance (SYRIZA) in Greece, visited Kalamata Port the place the rescued migrants have been taken to get details about the incident, and mentioned that the survivors instructed him that the Greek coast guard groups have been making an attempt to push the boat into Italian waters.

Volker Türk, the United Nations (UN) Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, introduced that 500 individuals, together with ladies and kids, disappeared after the boat capsized.

Greek officers questioned

In response to the monitoring knowledge obtained by the BBC from the worldwide ship monitoring intelligence web site MarineTraffic, opposite to the declare of the Greek authorities, the boat, wherein 78 individuals died, remained at sea for about 7 hours.

The Greek coast guard claims that the boat was not stationary and was on the transfer in direction of Italy at the moment, whereas the Greek authorities declare that there was no name for assist from the ship and that these on board weren’t in peril till the final second.

The United Nations has known as for an investigation into the Greek authorities’s procedures for the boat accident.

The Greek authorities has not but responded to the BBC’s claims.

Hans Leijtens, director of Frontex, the European Union’s (EU) border safety company, mentioned that they detected the capsized fishing boat and reported it to the Greek native authorities.