Nine Egyptian men accused of being members of a migrant smuggling ring appeared in Greek court for questioning over their alleged role in a deadly migrant shipwreck.
A group of men wait at the turnstiles and speak with survivors, mostly from Pakistan, of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Hundreds of migrants are believed to be missing after a fishing trawler sank off southern Greece last week.
Asked about the incident as World Refugee Day was marked across the globe Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “It is horrible, what happened, and the more urgent is that we act.” Nine Syrian and Pakistani survivors reportedly identified the suspects over the weekend as having been involved in sailing the ship.
Some survivors have said the trawler had been under tow by another vessel just before it sank. Greek officials have insisted the coast guard did not tow the migrant ship at any point, and only briefly had a line attached to it hours before it capsized and sank in international waters in the early hours of June 14.
One survivor, Ali Sheikhi from the northeast Syrian town of Kobani, told Kurdish TV new channel Rudaw that he and other relatives from Kobani agreed to pay smugglers $4,000 each for the trip, a sum later increased to $4,500. His younger brother died in the shipwreck, he said. By the time the ship sank, they had been at sea for five days. Water ran out after a day and a half, and he said some passengers resorted to drinking seawater.
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