On the night of 13th to 14th of June 2023, the overcrowded fishing vessel “Adriana” carrying approximately 750 refugees, capsized 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos, Greece, in the Greek Search and Rescue (SAR) zone. The boat left Tobruk, Libya …
The technological capacities of the ship PPLS 920 render absurd any no-footage claims (vid+pics) The technological capacities of the ship (PPLS 920) render absurd any claim by the Greek authorities that no footage of the Pylos shipwreck exists. [Announcement of…
In this post, we gather Frontex statements, reactions, initiatives, etc, on the Pylos shipwreck (official statements + media reports) 1) Frontex tweet (2023-06-14) An initial version of this tweet, had the phrase “All questions should be directed to the Greek…
In this post, we gather the public statements of the Coast Guard’s spokesman Nikos Alexiou in the next 24 hours after the fatal shipwreck off Pylos. Big contradictions arise from these statements, with the most characteristic being the initial absolute…
Update on the 2nd meeting of the Initiative of Lawyers and Jurists for the Pylos shipwreck in the Athens Bar Association On July 10, 2023, the 2nd meeting of the Initiative of Lawyers and Jurists for the Pylos Shipwreck took…
Open Letter on the Greece Boat Disaster: Questions of International Law This letter is undersigned by academics internationally specialising in the areas of migration, asylum, refugee and human rights law, public international law, law of the sea and international criminal…
Request to retrieve the vessel, and to recover the bodies, by relatives of missing persons in Pylos shipwreck. The lawyers representing relatives of persons missing in the Pylos shipwreck, Ms Maria Papaminas (Greek Council for Refugees), Ms Eleni Spathana (Support…