Researcher: borders & their violence, border regimes, Frontex, pushbacks. Writes a lot about Evros. 'A provocateur', 'should be investigated by the state'.
Sep 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Time for some @Frontex FOIA fun. 2-3 months ago Frontex released 2 batches of documents on operations in Evros in its public register. This is how I found out that at least *12* Serious Incident Reports falling within the scope of 3 FOIAs I submitted since 2020 weren't diclosed.
Not the first time this happened - there was one other SIR I know of that fell within the scope of a FOIA but wasn't released - but 12? No indication in Frontex's replies that some SIRs weren't disclosed, unlike with other documents requested (the 'smugglers might benefit' part).
Nov 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵CW: violence
Another #pushback case in Greece, this time with a difference. Ezrat, an Afghan man with refugee status who lives in Thessaloniki was kidnapped, beaten and pushed back to Turkey at #Evros. 1/
In 08/2021 he & 3 friends went to a house at the village of Kimmeria nr Xanthi to pay ransom for his nephew, held by a smuggling network. 2 police officers arrived, beat Ezrat & his friends, handcuffed them & drove them to a detention site nr Xanthi in a car with 🇧🇬 plates. 2/
Jun 9, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Since I have read many discussions here about which government started #pushbacks in 🇬🇷, a 🧵 with sources up to 2019.
Δεδομένου ότι έχω διαβάσει πολλές διαφωνίες σχετικά με το ποια κυβέρνηση ξεκίνησε τα pushbacks στην 🇬🇷, ένα νήμα με πηγές μεχρι το 2019.
A testimony that pushbacks happened in the late 1980s.
Μια μαρτυρία οτι επαναπροωθήσεις γίνονταν στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1980. athens.indymedia.org/post/1096124
