Pulled recordings challenge Greek report on deadly shipwreck

Pulled audio instructions from the Greek rescue coordinators in the hours before a migrant boat sank together with up to 650 people, further doubts about the official version of the events of Greece.

The Adriana followed in the early morning of June 14, 2023 in international waters – but in the rescue zone of Greece – after leaving Libya days earlier.

The BBC later announced the survivor that coastal guards are cap In a botched attempt to drag it and forced the witnesses to stay silent.

The Greek coast guard denied these claims and claimed that it did not try to save them on board because they were not in danger and said they had voluntarily reached Italy, not in Greece.

But in a telephone call that has now emerged, an unarmed man who speaks from a Greek rescue coordination center can be heard that the captain of the migrant boat shows a closer ship that those who are on board do not want to reach Greece.

The coast guard did not comment on the audio, but said that it handed over all available evidence to a naval court that examined the disaster.

The downfall was one of the worst disasters that were known that they had appeared in the Mediterranean.

It is estimated that the boat was wearing up to 750 migrants with the port of Tobruk in Libya almost a week earlier.

At two and two bodies, the United Nations believes that another 500 people – including 100 women and children who were on board – died.

Audio recordings Received from the Greek website news247.gr Call phone calls with the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) in the port of Piraeus near the capital Athens.

In the first call, at 6:50 p.m. local time (3:50 p.m. GMT) on June 13th, an official will be heard who explains to the man who falls the migrant boat that a large red ship will soon approach to give supplies and that he should explain that migrants do not want to reach Greece.

Officer 1:

• The boat goes to you to give you fuel, water and food. And in an hour we send you a second boat, ok?
• Say Captain to Big Red Ship “We don't want to go Greece”. OK?

The man's answers, who defeated the migrant boat, cannot be heard.

In a second call, a apparently other officer of the same coordination center speaks 90 minutes later at 10:10 p.m. with the captain of the happy sailor (the “big red ship”).

Officer 2:

Ok, captain, sorry before I couldn't hear you. I couldn't understand what you told me. You told me you gave them food and water and they told you that they don't want to stay in Greece and want them to Italy, they don't want anything else?

Happy sailor captain:

Yes, because I “Greece or Italy?” Asked? And everyone screamed Iktalia.

Officer 2:

Aah, ok, ok, everyone screamed that they don't want Greece and Italy want Italy?

Happy sailor captain:

Yes Yes Yes.

Officer 2:

OK

Happy sailor captain:

They are all like overcrowded people, very overcrowded, full deck.

Officer 2:

Ok, captain. So you have finished with the supplies?

Happy sailor captain:

Yes, sir, yes.

Officer 2:

Captain, I want that, I want this to be written in your logbook. The bridge logbook.

Happy sailor captain:

Yes ok, we'll write it.

Officer 2:

OK?

Happy sailor captain:

Yes

Officer 2:

I want you to write that you don't want to stay in Greece and want to go to Italy. They don't want anything from Greece and they want to go to Italy.

Happy sailor captain:

Ok, yes, yes.

Another ship, the loyal warrior, also gave the migrant boat some supplies, but no further conversations between his captain and the Greek authorities have appeared.

The Greek coast guard did not comment on the content of the conversations, but informed the BBC that it had submitted “the entire material that it had in its possession, including the audio recordings and the diaries of events”, the determination of the maritime public prosecutor.

It said it had saved more than a quarter of a million migrants at sea in the past ten years and arrested more than a thousand smugglers, and its humanitarian work was recognized internationally.

Our BBC examination in the immediate days after the downfall asked the Greek authorities' declaration For the catastrophe.

The analysis of the movement of other ships in the area indicates that the overcrowded fishing vehicle did not move for at least seven hours before capsizing.

The coast guard always insisted that the boat was on a course to Italy during these hours and was not in need of rescue.

Last year, A Greek court threw charges against nine Egyptian men who were accused of causing the shipwreck.

The judges in the southern port city of Kalamata decided that they are not responsible for hearing the case because the ship sank in international waters.

The indictment had shown that the accused were pursued by proofs that had already been refuted by at least six survivors who had told the BBC that the coast guard had prompted their boat to capsize, and then put them under pressure to frame the Egyptians.

The human rights lawyer Dimitris Choulis, who represented some of the accused Egyptians, said that he was not surprised at what these records had.

“We know about the tactics of the coast guard to either push people back or not to save.”

He claimed that it “tried from day one.”

“She [Greek authorities] Told the story “they did not want to be saved” and have insulted the memory of so many deaths, “he told the BBC.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have announced that they have strong reservations for the integrity of the Greek examination, and demanded an international investigation.

The Greek ombudsman – an independent authority removed from the government – has investigated the allegations.

The disaster is also examined by the Greek naval court.