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Aug 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@hellenicpolice issued a statement that they have attempted from day 1 to spot the 40 Syrians on the #Evros islet but no human presence was ever detected.

I can confirm this has been the official line - both orally and in police reports I have seen 1/
kathimerini.gr/society/561999…
2/ That's ofc odd, given the vast amounts of proof of the group's presence on the islet, incl. metadata, live locations, Greek witnesses' recordings of the refugees' screams, videos showing Greek security officers and a live TV broadcast by @lindseyhilsum. This is all public.
3/ Either the much advertised border surveillance systems are not advanced enough to detect 40 people on an islet or the geography of the islet provides an invisibility cloak. Any other explanation welcome.
4/ In their latest contact little over an hour ago, the Syrian refugees reported they are still on the islet, despite rumours circulating widely today that a rescue effort was underway / they had already left the islet / or had been evacuated from it.

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Aug 14
A note about #εβρος. For almost a month now we have been following, researching and documenting the case of the 40 refugees on the islet at the Greek-Turkish land border 1/8
spiegel.de/ausland/geflue…
2/8 We have collected mountains of evidence of their presence and plight, including photos with verified metadata... ImageImageImage
3/8 Live locations shared by the group from various days and times of day... Image
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Aug 14
An update on the case of the Syrian refugees trapped on the #Evros islet, based on all the information available to me at this moment🧵1/9
2/9 Three high-ranking GR officials w/ direct knowledge have confirmed to me the coordinates in the Interim Measures by the @ECHR_CEDH, mandating their rescue by Greece and non-removal from GR territory, lie within Turkish territory.
3/9 This is based on classified Army mapping, upon request by @hellenicpolice. I have seen no evidence from Turkey contradicting this, apart from leaks from the Turkish side the island is of mixed sovereignty. Also GR dismisses publicly available sources that the islet is Greek
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Aug 12
In this case:
➡️ A child is reported dead;
➡️ The refugees are Syrians (i.e. more "acceptable") & include women & children
➡️ There's non-stop coverage by Greek (@EFSYNTAKTON) & international media (@derspiegel @AJEnglish @Channel4) i.a.
➡️ There's a rescue order by @ECHR_CEDH 1/
2/ ➡️ Reputable Greek and international NGOs (@GCRefugees @rights360 @Border_Violence @mobileinfoteam ) and their tireless lawyers and advocacy workers are working non-stop to try to find a way to rescue the people
➡️ Major organisations such as @amnesty have intervened
3/ ➡️ The opposition, medical associations and others in Greece have called for their rescue
➡️ The @Europarl_EL @EU_Commission @Frontex @UNHCRGreece and others are informed
➡️ The Turkish and Greek governments are informed at the highest level.
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Aug 9
SOS in Evros - A small girl of 5 reported dead, another in critical condition. They are with a group of refugees stranded on Evros islet for days
Many of them have been pushed back & forth multiple times
112 & @hellenicpolice are informed.
Location: goo.gl/maps/NoPkodcDC… 1/
2/ Many of the refugees have been pushed back and forward by Greek and Turkish authorities multiple times since mid-July. They were with this group:
3/ Everyone knows Evros is off limits, but at this point, any failure to immediately act on the part of the authorities is nothing short of criminal.
@hellenicpolice @Frontex @EUparliament @YlvaJohansson @RefugeesMedia
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Aug 8
In televised address, 🇬🇷 PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed wiretapping affair rocking Greek politics: although legal, the surveillance of PASOK leader was “a mistake” that he did not know about. “I would never have authorised it” 1/ Image
2/ "Although everything was done legally the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political dimension [of the surveillance]...it was formally appropriate, but politically unacceptable. It should not have happened, causing cracks in public confidence" [in EYP], he said
3/ The government will suggest 4 areas of reform in the intelligence agency:
1) Strengthening accountability to & supervision by Parliament
2) Upgrading the role of the National Security Council
3) Making surveillance of political figures airtight
4) Strutural changes within EYP
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Jul 28
❗EXCLUSIVE: We got our hands on the secretive 129 p. OLAF investigation into @Frontex. It proves the Greek Coast Guard systematically commits pushbacks that FX knew all about - but covered it all up, as @derspiegel and partners have long reported spiegel.de/ausland/fronte… 1/20
2/ Instead of preventing the pushbacks, Leggeri and his people covered for Greece, blatantly lied to the EU Parliament, and concealed the fact that the agency is financing pushbacks with European tax payer money.
3/ There are countless gems in the report, submitted in February. It must be made public for Europeans to see how their best-funded, armed, rapidly growing EU agency had been run by a cabal disdaining human rights, the Commission & European Parliament .
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
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