Global Courant 2023-05-30 18:52:11
ATHENS
Greek authorities found the body of a woman found in a sunken boat last Friday near the Greek island of Mykonos, local media reported on Tuesday.
State broadcaster ERT said it recognized the body of the migrant found off the coast of Antiparos Island by two survivors from the boat. According to their statements, there were 17 people on the boat, among them four or five women and a 7-year-old girl.
The confirmed death toll from the accident so far has reached four, three women and one man.
Greek Coast Guard teams continue their search and rescue efforts to rescue missing passengers.
Greece has been criticized by many humanitarian groups for its illegal push-back tactics and treatment of migrants arriving in Greece in violation of various human rights laws.
Video footage recorded by an Austrian activist on the island of Lesbos in April and later published by The New York Times revealed illegal pushbacks, which the Greek government denied.
The video showed 12 migrants, including children and a 6-month-old baby, being taken in a van to a remote area nearby, where they were forcibly seen boarding a high-speed inflatable boat.
According to the report, the person driving the vehicle was wearing a ski mask.
The irregular migrants were later transferred to a Greek Coast Guard vessel, then abandoned on a floating boat in the middle of the Aegean Sea and left to drift until picked up by the Turkish Coast Guard.
Former Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that his government’s irregular immigration policy was harsh but fair and that the video was being investigated.
In 2015-16, Greece was at the epicenter of a migration crisis, with nearly 1 million refugees crossing its borders from war-torn countries in search of safety.
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