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The latest report from the sinking of a ship off the coast of Greece reports 78 dead and hundreds missing. A controversy agitates the country on the slowness of the intervention of the helps.
From Tuesday June 20, the nine migrants accused of being smugglers could be brought before a court in Kalamata, in southern Greece. They should be indicted for human trafficking and manslaughter. The nine are among the survivors of the ship that sank last week off the Peloponnese. They would have been recognized by other survivors. But at the same time, the NGOs are asking Greece for another investigation: that of the poor organization of relief, when the alert had been given 24 hours earlier.
“The coast guard sent a rope, then they cut it”
An Egyptian migrant who was on board was able to recount the intervention deemed chaotic by the Greek coast guard just before the sinking. “We were off, the coastguards sent a rope, after, they cut it off, the boat overturned and I found myself underneath, but other people were higher up on the boat, they were the ones who told me that”, confides a migrant. Other indirect testimonies point in the same direction. Greece took too long to intervene, why? It is the controversy that agitates the country, explains the journalist of France Televisions, Lionel Feuerstein, special correspondent in Kalamata, in Greece.