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Protests across Greece as ship deaths likely pass 500, migrants blame failed towing


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This is horrific. Rest in peace to all. :dancehall3:

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This is why the aliens are coming

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Sad. The greed putting so many on the boat. 

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This is so sad, people shouldn’t have to go through this just to get a chance at a better life. RIP :dancehall3:

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Updated OP for latest death toll

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jfc how awful 

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This is awful and the worst part is that this wasn't the first and definitely won't be the last time something like happens, Europe leaders don't give a **** sadly.

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were the people forced onto the boat? :biblio:

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9 hours ago, flower moon said:

were the people forced onto the boat? :biblio:

In this instance specifically, highly unlikely for most of any of them.

 

Although human trafficking for either labor or sex has occurred through these routes. 

 

Here, they paid smugglers to board the boat.

 

Since this has started being tracked in the first wave in 2014, roughly 25,000 have died this way in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_migrant_crisis

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the rich middle eastern countries should help EU handling this migrant crisis tbh

 

why cant they help 

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the way the media ignore news like this is also heartbreaking.

It was like when you`re an immigrant, your life doesn`t matter

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The fact that this was largely ignored and these people will be vilified by the media, while 5 jackass billionaires are getting the whole world’s attention and won’t be treated as assholes who made an ******* decision and ultimately will cost taxpayers millions of dollars is infuriating.

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The testimonies also echoed previous accounts that the steel-hulled trawler sank in calm seas during a botched attempt to tow it. This clashes with the Greek coast guard’s insistence that neither its patrol boat that escorted the trawler in its last hours nor any other vessel attached a tow rope.

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“The Greek ship cast a rope and it was tied to our bows,” survivor Abdul Rahman Alhaz said in his sworn testimony. “We shouted ‘stop, stop!’ because our boat was listing. (It) was in bad shape and overloaded, and shouldn’t have been towed.”

https://apnews.com/article/greece-migrant-shipwreck-smugglers-9daf86915e8bd89a1697dd1ee75504ac

 

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@Letemtalk Thanks, updated OP title. I'll just have them scroll down to your story. 

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Apparently they refused help from Greece because they wanted to go to Italy, Such a joke 

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5 hours ago, Shelter said:

Apparently they refused help from Greece because they wanted to go to Italy, Such a joke 

That's the Greek accounting that's since been loudly and repeatedly refuted by numerous migrants that were on the ship. 

 

Quite frankly, having taken everything in (14 articles and a lot of video) I think both happened. There were some in authority on that ship that wanted to keep going to Italy and some that weren't that didn't AND the Greek authorities tried to tow the boat, exacerbating a problem already occurring of the migrants moving from one side to the other to try and reset the tow that was causing it to tip, making the problem worse and eventually causing it tip over entirely. A lot had no chance to escape that were bunched into the hull. 

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