The controversy comes two days before a general election. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ATHENS - Greece’s government came under pressure over its migration policies on Friday after video footage emerged allegedly showing Greek coastguards expelling migrants by setting them adrift in the Aegean Sea.
A tough stance against immigration is a key plank of Mr Mitsotakis’s election platform. Earlier in the campaign, the prime minister travelled to the land border with Turkey where he vowed to extend a five-metre-high steel fence to contain the inward migration flow.In it, a group of asylum seekers including a baby, are driven in an white van to a “small cove spot with a wooden dock at the southern tip” of the island where they are taken out to the Aegean waters on a speedboat.
The report added that this was the April 11 rescue of “12 irregular migrants on the lifeboat that was pushed back to Turkish territorial waters by Greek assets”, which Turkish coast guards had documented in a statement. “Everyone has the right to be protected from such treatment,” said Ms Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the commissioner. “An independent, effective investigation is crucial.”
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