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Daily Sabah (21 June 2024)

Lack of accountability so far has let Greece’s alleged brutality against migrants reach unprecedented levels, EU lawmakers say in letter urging EU officials to investigate recent claims of Greek pushbacks in Aegean Sea.

Dozens of European Parliament lawmakers on Thursday called on the European Commission to conduct an independent investigation into a recent report that accused the Greek coast guard of causing the deaths of migrants with illegal pushbacks.

“The BBC revelations of the Hellenic Coast Guard’s direct role in migrants deaths as deliberate policy are chilling,” Tineke Strik, a Dutch EP lawmaker for the Greens, said on X.

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