RT Vassilis Tsarnas
#GreeceBoatDisaster: 🇮🇹s "sent a troubling warning to their 🇪🇺 & 🇬🇷 colleagues: 2 children had died aboard.. The alert was sent at 8:01am.. The ship would.. capsize that night, killing hundreds.. on board. The new details are revealed in an internal doc at.. #Frontex"
#RefugeesGr
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POLITICOEurope: Italy warned of dead children on board of the Adriana migrant ship hours before it capsized, killing hundreds.
The findings of an investigation complicate the timeline European authorities have given and when they knew of serious distress on the boat.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VassilisTsarnas/status/1680243577056624643

Italy warned of dead children on migrant ship hours before it capsized

The findings of an investigation by Welt am Sonntag and POLITICO raise questions about whether the authorities knew the boat was in distress earlier than they admitted.

POLITICO

#Greece: "They.. asked to use pseudonyms because they fear the 🇬🇷 gov't would punish them for speaking out about what they saw.. "When we told them that we had been towed with a rope.. They did not write down what we said”

We want answers, justice and reparations .

#refugeesgr #greeceboatdisaster

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/7/5/survivors-greek-coastguard-was-next-to-us-when-boat-capsized

#antireport #antireportgr @antireportgr

Survivors: ‘Greek coastguard was next to us when boat capsized’

Two Syrian refugees recall their harrowing journey and pin blame on the coastguard for the devastating shipwreck.

Al Jazeera
On board the #Adriana, the roughly 750 passengers descended into violence and desperation. Every movement threatened to capsize the ship. Survivors described beatings and panic as they waited for a rescue that would never come | NYTimes: Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped.
Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped. #Migrants #migration #shipwreck #GreeceBoatDisaster #greece #italy #MediterraneanSea https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/world/europe/greece-migrant-ship.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped.

Satellite imagery, sealed court documents and interviews with survivors suggest that hundreds of deaths were preventable.

The New York Times

"'It’s not the fault of five men that hundreds of people died off Greek shores. But it is the fault of a system where the class disparities are so huge,' said one senior journalist at a major Pakistani outlet, who asked not to be named. 'When people point that out, it is misunderstood as hatred.'"

#GreeceBoatDisaster #TitanicSub #hypocrisy #class

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Disbelief and anger among Greek shipwreck victims’ relatives as millions spent on Titan rescue effort

Disparity between rescue responses has sparked debate in Pakistan about double standards

The Guardian
Nautical disaster, non-plutocrat iteration - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The horrible story with hundreds dead, still developing in the Mediterranean: The story of how as many as 750 migrants came to board a rickety blue fishing trawler and end up in one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks is bigger than any one of the victims. But for everyone, it started somewhere, and for Thaer Khalid al-Rahalit […]

Lawyers, Guns & Money

Peter Brookes in today's Times on contrasting efforts to save Iives at sea...

#TitanicRescue #GreeceBoatDisaster

Today I have a more visceral understanding of the term 'high net-worth individuals'. And it makes me feel very queasy indeed.

#GreeceBoatDisaster #OceanGate #migrants #billionaires