I'm from Greece. I've heard numerous stories from the victims themselves, the ones that managed to survive. This is all true and just the tip of the iceberg.

It happens to the Evros river as well where people from Turkey come from.

There was a shipwreck in Pylos with hundreds drowned last year.

And there are many cases from people that are rescued that later are returned or tortured.

The ones that manage to get a staying permit as official refugees, are treated by most government offices with inequality and lies.

Border guards in the EU are fascist scum. This happens on every external EU border, not just in Greece.

The fact that this is breaking on the BBC, also should tell you something about the state of press freedom in Mitsotakis' Greece.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But in four of these cases we were able to corroborate accounts by speaking with eye witnesses.Our research, which features in a new BBC documentary, Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?, suggested a clear pattern.

"He and two others - another from Cameroon and a man from Ivory Coast - were transferred to a Greek coastguard boat, he said, where events took a terrifying turn.“They started with the [other] Cameroonian.

Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?In June 2023, an overloaded trawler flips in front of a Greek coast guard patrol boat.

Our interviewee made it to land where he was eventually spotted by the Turkish coastguard.In the incident with the highest loss of life - in September 2022 - a boat carrying 85 migrants ran into trouble near the Greek island of Rhodes when its motor cut out.Mohamed, from Syria, told us they rang the Greek coastguard for help - who loaded them onto a boat, returned them to Turkish waters and put them in life rafts.

Human rights groups allege thousands of people seeking asylum in Europe have been illegally forced back from Greece to Turkey and denied the right to seek asylum, which is enshrined in international and EU law.Austrian activist Fayad Mulla told us he discovered for himself how secretive such operations seem to be in February last year, on the Greek island of Lesbos.

He replied that they "drive them back", and said such orders were "from the minister", adding they would be punished if they failed to stop a boat.Greece has always denied so-called “pushbacks” are taking place.Greece is an entryway into Europe for many migrants.

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