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🔥BREAKING🔥 FOR THE 1st TIME: A ‘PUSHBACK’ VICTIM SUES FRONTEX FOR HALF A MILLION EUROS AFTER HE WAS KIDNAPPED FROM GREECE, TRANSFERRED TO A ‘DEATH RAFT’, ABANDONED IN DISTRESS AT SEA OVERNIGHT FOR 17 HOURS & COLLECTIVELY EXPULSED TO TURKEY 👇🏽🧵
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BREAKING: For the 1st time in the history of
#FRONTEX
@LexFront
,
@ProgressLawyers
& Greek Helisnki Monitor have filed a legal action against
#FRONTEX
to the
@EUCourtPress
for Serious Human Rights Violations in the Aegean Sea
Press Release & Legal Brief:
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
We are taking Frontex Director Kalnaja to Court!
Relying on FRESH EVIDENCE from the OLAF report, we ask the Court to rule that Kalnaja must terminate Frontex’s operations in the Aegean Sea.
Help us win this case:
The whole story🧵👇
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The brave claimant in the 1st human rights case v
#Frontex
, an unaccompanied minor refugee
tells
@ylenews
how his attempt to seek asylum in the 🇪🇺ended with
#EU
agents throwing him & others to the water, killing his friend & laughing while he was drowning
happy
#HumanRightsDay
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Thank you
@boell_gr
&
@NedaNora
for the publication &
@boell_eu
&
@GoerlichHannah
for hosting the event.
Thank you
@boell_fr_it
,
@hhc_helsinki
,
@Border_Violence
@ASF_NGO
,
@RefugeesinLibya
,
@assedelorg
et al. for your valuable participation.
Free Access>
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Instead, European forces kidnapped, detained, assaulted, forcibly transferred them to and abandoned them on a ‘death raft’ with no life-vests, water, food, means of navigation or communication. They were left adrift at night for 17 hours.
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"He started hitting me on my back, hitting, hitting, hitting."
Alaa Hamoudi, the first pushback survivor to sue
#Frontex
for damages, recounts the vioent transfer into a 'death raft' during the pushback.
Alaa needs your help! (1/2)
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Alaa is one of 43,000 human beings who were arrested by European agents on EU territory. Then they disappeared. What happened to them? Are they alive? Were they thrown into the water? Abandoned at sea? Collectively expelled? What were their names? Stories?
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front-LEX filed this unprecedented case to the
@EUCourtPress
on behalf of Mr. Alaa Hamoudi, a 22-years old Syrian refugee. Alaa sought asylum on the Greek island of Samos with 21 other refugees including a minor. They asked locals to call the police, wanting to apply for asylum.
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<BREAKING>
#Frontex
's Fundamental Rights Officer
@JGrimheden
confirms our
@EUCourtPress
case (T-282/21 SS & ST v Frontex) over EU Push-Backs:
"Frontex is complicit in human rights violations in Greece... I have sufficient evidence that this is happening"
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[DE] "Lawyers Omer Shatz, Loica Lambert, Iftach Cohen and Mieke Van den Broeck filed a lawsuit against Frontex at the ECJ...it'd be the first time... Frontex boss has to answer in Court, says Omer Shatz...The rule of law at EU borders must be restored"
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The crime: seeking asylum in the🇪🇺
The punishment: abducted, assaulted, robbed, forcibly expelled & abandoned at sea
The victims, a refugee and a homeless asylum seeker, dared to go to
@EUCourtPress
Now
#Frontex
, the most financed agency in the
#EU
, wants them to pay
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They were at grave risk for their lives, as a Greek vessel repeatedly pushed the dinghy into Turkish territory while a
#FRONTEX
plane surveilled from above. Their raft was already sinking when they were finally rescued by the Turkish coast guard.
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This case heavily draws on the outstanding work of investigative journalists from
@LHreports
,
@bellingcat
@derspiegel
& their media partners. The precious evidence they gathered allowed this case to move forward.
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[IT]“This EU agency has... a real army that...has never been... denounced for violations of human rights... at the external...borders of the EU... A real overturning of the existing rules ...sanctioned by international treaties“ explains Adv. Iftach Cohen"
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No criminal group is infiltrating the Libyan 'coastguard'.
The Libyan 'coastguard' IS a criminal group.
@EU_Commission
was aware already in 2017 that the LCG is a "spectrum of militia groups" whose training "did not fall within the exemptions to the embargo", acc. to the UNSC.
We have been documenting the violent and illegal actions of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard for years.
Even though the
@EU_Commission
confirms evidence of criminal infiltration, it continues to support them with boats & provide millions of euros.
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‘War is peace’: EU law (Art. 46) obliges Frontex to end Operations where related fundamental rights violations take place.
But Frontex’s Fundamental Rights Officer – who is not an elected legislator – suggests ‘reversing’ the law and sending MORE Frontex assets to these places.
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How many
@nyt
@EUAntiFraud
@derspiegel
@LHreports
reports the
@EUCourtPress
need
in order to rule in the pending
@LexFront
cases re
#EU
ongoing policy in the Aegean Sea?
How many more will have to be abducted, forcibly transferred & abandon at sea? 🧵
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This case is a first in an avalanche of ‘pushback’ lawsuits worth tens of millions of euro. After all other mechanisms have failed,
@EUCourtPress
is the victims’ last resort - capable of providing them legal remedy and prevent the future victimization of countless others.
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“It looks like what 🇬🇷's doing since 2020 as a policy, which is pushbacks by towing boats to another country’s waters to avoid.. rescue,”
@shatzomer
@Front_LEX
told
@CNN
.
"Rescue means disembarkation and disembarkation means processing of asylum requests”
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Our sincere gratitude also goes to
@fragdenstaat
for filing the FOIA requests to
#Frontex
in this case:
Kudos also to
@ABoatReport
for the ongoing reporting of the commission of these daily crimes in real-time
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“It was a horrible, hard time,” says Alaa, who is now stranded in Turkey. “It’s unforgettable. They threw us onto a boat as if we had committed a crime. I lost all my hope. All my dreams and ambitions disappeared because of the pushback.”
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>>>BREAKING>>>
#Frontex
Director
@KalnajaAija
just responded to our
@EUCourtPress
pre-action
In the pre-action we requested to activate Art. 46 & *immediately* terminate the Agency's operations in the Aegean Sea
The request relied, inter alia, on the
@EUAntiFraud
report >>>
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@LEXfront
would like to thank Mr. Alaa Hamoudi for his courage to challenge the most powerful agency in the EU whilst surviving dire living conditions: your legal action paved the way for countless other victims to pursue justice and accountability.
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“the case is not about rescue but persecution. It comes down to one question: if they weren’t refugees but white Europeans, would
#Frontex
and Greece have accompanied them to their death instead of rescuing them?”
@shatzomer
, legal director
@front_LEX
👇
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Today
#Frontex
officers welcomed
@MargSchinas
at their place of work – EU’s external borders in the Evros region. Today, there are 2000 standing corps officers at the borders, with the largest number in Greece. We appreciate your support, Mr Vice-President
#StrongerTogether
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The only thing that has changed since
#OLAF
is the name of the Executive Perpetrator
Nothing has changed in Greece: New victims are abducted and abandoned to drown as before
Nothing has changed in Brussels:
@YlvaJohansson
backs
@KalnajaAija
, just as she backed Leggeri
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#EvacuateRefugeesFromLibya
The peaceful, self-organized protest of African protection seekers in front of the UNHCR in Tripoli, Libya, was brutally crushed after >100 days. At least 600 people, including women and children, were taken to one of the notorious detention centres...
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I have seen women raped in Libya, this
@EU_Commission
raped them, the people whom have died in the Central Mediterranean since 2013, this Commission killed them, the people auctioned in Libya, this Commission enslaved them. These atrocities happen in Brussels
@Yambiodavid
The following are excerpts translated into Arabic from the press conference in the European Parliament on June 29, 2023.📌
Refugees and migrants have shed tears equivalent to the seas and oceans but no one has approached to wipe out these tears📌
They have shed heavy blood and
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Migration is not a crime.
This is the result of the EU's deadly border externalisation policies that make it impossible for people to enact their right to ask for asylum.
The very least the victims deserve is an investigation.
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#EU
is the biggest human trafficker worldwide.
You feel protected now. But you will be held to account for atrocity crimes against refugees,
@MargSchinas
@YlvaJohansson
@LeijtensFrontex
@JGrimheden
@ABaerbock
et al.
#WRD
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We are taking
#Frontex
& the
#EU
to Court
for their genocidal migration policies
in the Mediterranean
support our work:
@lnob2020
@abolishfrontex
#LeaveNoOneBehind
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Why did the
@EU_Commission
propose to renew Leggeri’s term in 2019, ignoring pushbacks and his failure to end operations in Hungary?
Together with
@FragDenStaat
we submitted a FOIA request.
The reply shows that Leggeri’s interests still prevail over the rights of refugees. 🧵👇🏽
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and finally we are grateful to the helpful documentation of
@ABoatReport
which monitored the incident(s) of the applicants as well as many other incidents the case analyze
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Let it sink: EU First Countries of Asylum Italy and Greece cannot be considered Safe Third Countries...
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Perhaps the LARGEST attempted PUSH BACK in human HISTORY, is being endorsed by
#UNHCR
...
The vessel in distress was 20 minutes away (7km) from a Greek shore
But
@HCoastGuard
towed the boat for 3 days (+500km!)
382 human beings. 3 days of torture
@ABoatReport
@Koraki_OKeeffe
UNHCR is relieved over 380 people on a boat in distress off the coast of Greece have been safely disembarked on Kos island.
We are grateful to the Greek authorities and stand ready to provide any support necessary.
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Watch this to understand why this is not an unintended failure to rescue but intentional policy of mass murder by drowning 👇 Europe you are perversely sick !
"Survivors have witnessed traumatic events as a 23-year-old man from
#Syria
fell overboard and drifted from the rubber boat. They were unable to retrieve him due the lack of fuel"
🎙️ Sebastien Ponsford ,
#Humanitarian
Affairs Officer on board of the
#GeoBarents
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According to
@UN_HRC
,
#Frontex
agents may be exposed to INDIVIDUAL & CRIMINAL responsibility for crimes against humanity.
To avoid prosecution,
@wemoveEU
,
@fragdenstaat
&
@front_LEX
call on Frontex staff to refuse committing & report abuses.
If you see something, say something!
What's
#Frontex
up to? 🤔
Lawyer
@shatzomer
from
@front_LEX
has detailed a long list of how it violates law, human rights and its own guidelines.
That’s why we’re calling on
#Frontex
staff to report abuse.
Join us and
@fragdenstaat
: 📢
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He was wrong: Instead of helping the French citizen, the Greek police abducted, detained, robbed, threatened and violently expelled her back to Turkey. As a result of EU’s migration policy of mass expulsions, the young French student is now spending 6+ years in a Turkish prison.
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To be clear: this is not omission to bring to safety on land persons in distress at sea. This is kidnapping tens of thousands civilians from safety on land and abandoning them in distress at sea. This is at minimum attempted murder.
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🔥🔥🔥During a press conference on our newest case, MEP
@ErnstCornelia
called for the resignation of
#FRONTEX
director Leggeri and EU Commissioner for Home Affairs,
@YlvaJohansson
.
“We are all clear, and even the commission is clear, that Leggeri is to be fired.”
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