The Greek coast was charged over 2023 Migrant Brodolom star-news.press/wp

The Naval Court in Greece has accused 17 coastal herescreen through the deadliest migrant boats in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.

It was afraid of up to 650 people to drown when the overcrowded fishing boats of Adriana sunk near Pylos, with the Greek coast, in the early hours of 14. June 2023. Years.

The survivors later said the BBC that the Greek coast was caused by their ship to overwhelm into the ejectation of trying to retire, then silenced witnesses.

“It was taken over by two years just to make these accusations, although so many people were witnessing what happened,” one of the survivors, the Syrian man we called Ahmad, Monday.

Greek authorities have always denied receivables against them.

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Pyresian Naval Court found that 17 members of the Helnic Coast Guard should face criminal charges.

Among them is the captain of the shade, LS-920, accused of “causing shipwrecks”, leading to the death of “at least 82 people.”

This corresponds to the number of renovated bodies, although there are even 500 people in drowning, including women and children who were all under the deck.

The disaster occurred in international waters – but in the Greek rescue zone.

Then the head of the coast guard and the supervisor of the National Center for Coordination of Search and Rescue in Pirae are among the four officials accused of “exposure to others at the danger.”

The Captain LS-920 also inflated “dangerous interference interference”, as well as “Failure to provide assistance” to a migrant ship.

The ship crew is charged for “simple complicity” in all works that allegedly committed the captain.

The ship with the coast was supervised by Adrian 15 hours before it sank.

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We explored the disaster day and our series of findings dealt with serious doubt about the official Greek version of the event.

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A month later the survivors told us The coast caused their ship to sink in catastrophic efforts to withdraw, then forced witnesses to keep quiet.

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Earlier this year, audio recordings appeared, which further challenged the official Greek version of the event.

We first met Syrian refugees, who called Ahmad and Musaab to protect their identity, a month after a disaster.

They said that each paid $ 4,500 (£ 3,480) for a place on board.

Ahmad’s younger brother was also on board and he didn’t survive.

Musaab described us at the time when he said – the Greek coast caused their ship to sink.

“They attached a rope on the left,” he said. “Everyone moved to the right side of our ship to be burdened. The Greek ship moved quickly by causing our boat to turn around.

Men claimed that once on the mainland, in the port of Kalamata, he informed that the coast survived “Shut up” when they started talking about how Greek authorities caused a catastrophe.

“When people answered saying the Greek coast was the cause, the examination officer requested an interpreter that the respondent says he stopped talking,” Ahmad said.

He said that officials were shouting, “You survived death. Stop talking about the incident Don’t ask more questions about it.”

Today, Ahmad – who now lives in Germany – he said he felt they saw the charges that were brought.

“I am very happy that they eventually consider responsible for everything they committed, but until I see them in prison nothing has been done yet,” he said.

“To be honest, the Greek legal system is very unreliable.”

The joint legal team representing the survivors and victims of disaster said that the decision to continue the case against 17 coastal shores was a great step forward to justice.

In the statement, it was said: “Almost two years after the pilot, prosecutor’s office and referring to the mainstaff of 17 members of the coast, including high officials, represent significant and self-evident development during the conviction and delivery of justice.”

It is understood 17 men who are now the accused will be examined in the coming weeks of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Pyresian Naval Court.

The court will then decide whether to send them to a complete trial or reject the charges.

It is not immediately clear which the punishment of the coast could receive if found guilty.

Greece previously told that the BBC His Coast Guard fully respected human rights and saved more than 250,000 people at sea in the last decade.