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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: For the 1st time, an EU citizen who was pushed back by Greece is taking EU migration policy to Court.
Today, frontLEX filed an unprecedented case at the European Court of Human Rights, challenging the pushback of an *EU citizen*. 🧵👇
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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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What an honour.
Ms Kalnaja, blocking us on Twitter will not help you hide the crimes that Frontex is complicit in.
You don't have much time before we meet up in Court.
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“The Greek police threw the baby down from the Greek ship, but missed the life raft, luckily we managed to get the baby back... Another girl was pushed down from the Greek ship, broke her foot, it was barbaric, they enjoyed it, as if we were not humans.”
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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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“Under the leadership of Fabrice Leggeri, Frontex poses a threat to the legal order of the EU. The board of directors must remove him from office immediately,” said Adv.
@shatzomer
and Adv. Iftach Cohen from the
@LexFront
legal team in
@derSpiegel
.
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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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As
@euobs
writes, “A screenshot of the
@bellingcat
video footage shows a bearded Alaa looking down into this phone. But the judges dismissed the photo and video as evidence amid claims it was not possible to distinguish the gender.”
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📢 BREAKING
Enough is enough.
@lexfront
is taking
@YlvaJohansson
@EU_Commission
to
@EUCourtPress
for blocking the process to fire
#Frontex
Director Fabrice Leggeri after
@EUAntiFraud
found him guilty of deadly pushbacks.
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[EN]
"We trust the Court to hear the victims, to see what everyone sees, to hold EU border agency to account, and to restore the Rule of Law over EU lands and seas,” lawyers Omer Shatz and Iftach Cohen from Front-LEX said in a statement.
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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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“
@EUAntiFraud
agency analysed the same facts we analysed in this case and found Leggeri corrupt. The Court will find him guilty,” said Adv.
@shatzomer
and Adv. Iftach Cohen from the
@LexFront
legal team.
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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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The "Colleagues" of
#Frontex
: The Hellenic Coast Guard
@LeijtensFrontex
@YlvaJohansson
@MargSchinas
☠️☠️☠️
@EUCourtPress
(audio on)
👇
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BREAKING – First Legal Challenge Against Frontex’s Complicity in Crimes Against Humanity!
Based on findings from journalists & UN org’s front-LEX &
@RefugeesinLibya
file unprecedented Art.265 TFEU legal notice to
@LeijtensFrontex
!
CC
@seawatch_intl
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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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The case was filed on behalf of an unaccompanied minor & a woman who arrived w/others to Lesbos (Greece) to seek asylum in the EU.
Instead, the group was kidnapped, physically & sexually assaulted, robbed, detained, forcibly & collectively expelled & abandoned on 'rafts' at sea
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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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BREAKING>> No Court and No Justice in the EU🧵
The
@EUCourtPress
has just ruled that the hundreds of thousands asylum seekers affected by
#Frontex
policy of collective expulsions & abandonment at sea cannot ACCESS the EU Court in pursuit of legal remedy!
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Alaa needs your help. As a non-profit, to continue working, we rely on your donations. Support us here:
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We submitted extensive evidence, incl. recordings & photographs from an investigation by
@LHreports
@guardian
@DeutscheWelle
@trouw
&
@bellingcat
documenting the ‘pushback’ AH was subjected to. Despite all this,
@EUCourtPress
was somehow unable to determine ‘his or her’ features.
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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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Remember when Greece pushed an *EU CITIZEN* back to Turkey?
She is still in a Turkish prison and our case against Greece is ongoing.
In-depth coverage by
@libe
in French:
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Why did the
@EU_Commission
extend Fabrice Leggeri's term as Frontex director in 2019 when he was the only one standing with Viktor Orbán's Hungary? Together with
@fragdenstaat
we filed a freedom of information request to find out:
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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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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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[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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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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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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Everyone knows that the 43,000 victims in the Aegean Sea are not a tragedy, but
#Frontex
strategy
Everyone but
@KalnajaAija
. In her response, the new Director *REFUSES* to terminate
#Frontex
operation, arguing that
Art. 46 "cannot be triggered based on *isolated incidents*" 🤣
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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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"After watching the EU’s foreign affairs chief Borrell stating how ‘shocked’ he was by the murder of George Floyd, I cannot help but wonder, how many thousands of drownings of black and brown lives will it take for the EU to put an end to Frontex?"
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In Warsaw they're watching LIVE streaming, for hours, how children, women & men are abandoned in the middle of the sea
It seems Leggeri needs a lawyer & Frontex needs a Court to explain them what the Law is
@LexFront
takes the EU to Court
@lesboslegal
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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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We'd like to thank the Applicants, Jeancy Kimbenga & N.A., for their trust and courage, and to our partners
@ProgressLawyers
,
@PDimitras
&
@gggreen14
without whom this could not have happened. Merci & σας ευχαριστώ
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*illegal* border crossings? Surely you individually assessed everyone & strangely no one was seeking protection, right?
Irregular border crossing for the purpose of seeking asylum is *legal* under int'l, European & EU law. Penalization of irregular entry, is not
#abolishfrontex
📌Latest from 🇪🇺 external borders: The number of illegal border crossings in the first 5 months of 2021 reached 47,100, 47% more than a year ago when irregular migration dropped due to COVID
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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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Dec '23 –
#CJEU
found digital evidence documenting the ‘pushback’ of Syrian refugee, Alaa Hamoudi, from GR to Türkiye in April 2020 insufficient, dismissing his action for damages.
Now,
@front_LEX
's appeal reveals the General Court’s unattainable & incorrect standard of proof!
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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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#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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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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A French student and her husband fled political persecution in Turkey. They entered Greece attempting to return to their home in France. The victim presented her French passport to the Greek police, and stated the grave risk she is facing in Turkey.
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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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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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In these circumstances the one, inescapable conclusion is that Frontex - i.e. the
#EU
and its 27 Member States that are deploying their assets and agents to this agency - are responsible for this massacre just as Greece.
Cruel, Mass Killing by Drowning. The face of Europe.
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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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It is the evidence the joint investigation of
@LHreports
@bellingcat
@derspiegel
@ARD_Presse
@tv_asahi_PR
@libe
@stluedke
@Maximilian_Popp
@TomasStatius
and others produced allowed us to take this case to court.
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5
20
.
@CateBriddick
, a refugee law lecturer at Oxford, said the woman’s case “shows the absurdity of Fortress Europe.” (It) should give pause to European citizens everywhere to think about what these policies are doing to us, as well as to the people we’re trying to keep out.”
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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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[FR] "Je veux porter cette voix pour que cela puisse cesser". Jeancy Kimbenga (17y)
Kimbenga's close friend drowned to death during one of the pushbacks he was victim of.
Greek forces didn't even bother to recover the corpse. An interview w/
@TomasStatius
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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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We’d like to thank
@LHreports
for their collaboration and in particular to
@bash_deeb
for his priceless assistance. Read Bashar’s story on the 28-29/4/20 incident here 👇🏽
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Last but not least, many thanks for the hard and good work of our own legal team :)
@shatzomer
, Iftach Cohen, Amanda Musco Eklund, Estelle Nandnaba, Francesco Gatta and
@jo_andolanjeevi
. Kudos!
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They are shooting from a vessel provided by the EU.
So now the
#EU
is shooting... at its own citizens
(Not to mention the breach of
#UNSC
arms embargo)
On 07.07.23,
#OceanViking
rescued 11 people following a mayday relay. During the operation,
@SOSMedIntl
crew & 11 survivors faced a security incident with a Libyan patrol vessel shooting in close range of our fast rescue boats. Here the reconstruction of this unacceptable event👇
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“We continued to beg them not to send us back, explaining to them I was French and that we were persecuted in Turkey,” she says in her statement.
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Frontex is under legal obligation to suspend or terminate its operations in Greece.
In June, we sent a legal notice to Interim Director
@KalnajaAija
asking her to do exactly that.
She should comply with the law before the Court orders her to do so.
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Last week’s investigation reaffirms our findings in the case of Alaa Hamoudi vs Frontex:
‘Prevention of departure’ is a code name for pushbacks and the Frontex Management Board was engaged in covering up this unlawful practice.
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#Leggeri
is finally doing what he should have done years ago and what we demanded in our latest legal action, and is stepping down, Politico writes.
A first step on the long way to stopping Frontex's murderous activities.
"Pressure is now mounting for the European Commission to table a proposal to get Leggeri fired. Lawyers at front-LEX, a Dutch-based civil society organisation, last week sent a legal notice to EU home affairs commissioner,
@YlvaJohansson
."
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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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Look at your kids. Look at these kids. 30 children on EU soil.
Abducted, forcibly transferred and abandoned. In the middle of the sea. In the middle of the night
EU psychopaths: we will hold you to account
@YlvaJohansson
@vonderleyen
@MargSchinas
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@EUCourtPress
misinterpreted & ignored available (!) evidence – incl. the
#OLAF
report which investigated the incident & confirmed Frontex's involvement in this criminal policy – to again avoid assessing the joint responsibility of
#Frontex
in well-documented ‘pushbacks’.
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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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Kidnapping, violently rounding up & forcibly transferring +10,000 asylees to 'death' rafts, then abandoning them at sea - is NOT a 'push-back'
It's an attempted murder. Pursuant to a state policy, it's a crime against humanity.
On EU soil. By EU agents.
Today. Not back then.
Turkish officials invited journalists to witness what they described as Greece illegally pushing migrants back out to sea. Here’s what we saw.
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Since 2021
@front_LEX
's litigation vs.
#Frontex
requests the Court one thing: to order Frontex to suspend its operations in Greece
We expect
@LeijtensFrontex
to immediately report
@EUCourtPress
in cases T-600/22 & T-136/22.
Thousands of lives are at stake.
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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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BREAKING!
@LexFront
, a founding member alongside
@HIASrefugees
@OSFJustice
,
@IRAP
,
@idcmonitor
&
many others across the globe,
is excited to announce the launch of the
Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights
kudos🙏
@aaleinikoff
@ianmkysel
@JessTherkelsen
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6 Years in Turkish Prison because of the EU: Greece pushed back a French Citizen persecuted in Turkey
Find the press release here:
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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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There she has been stripped naked for searches 3 times. Her first prison cell was full of mice. Since then her family has written countless letters to French and European Union lawmakers and officials, and even to French President
@EmmanuelMacron
, asking for help.
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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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[DE] "It is the first time that ... a court will conduct a judicial oversight... at least we hope so – to hold the agency to account... all the other bodies have failed to control this agency," Omer Shatz, a lawyer who works at Front-LEX, told Euronews."
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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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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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“We are totally disappointed with Greek authorities,” her sister told the AP in Paris. “We didn’t think they would return a persecuted person back to the persecutor. We are equally disappointed with French authorities because we were abandoned.”
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He is armed. He has an army. No one in the
#EU
can fire him. No wonder he is enjoying full impunity.
#46
(2)
According to EU law, no one can stop
#Frontex
, as its director is granted to be „completely independent“.
Within the new
#StandingCorps
, the agency now commands and arms its own border force for the first time.
This reinforces the glaring control deficit:
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Frontex can no longer deny the occurrence of widespread and systematic pushbacks related to its operations in Greece, so it decides to “reverse” the law, to simply write its own law.
But as
@amandinebach
points out, it is not up to Frontex to make the law.
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Not a Tragedy.
#EU
Strategy
Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2022 - the highest number since 2012.
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The Guardian's
@JenniferMerode
talked to Alaa Hamoudi, claimant in the first ever pushback damages case against Frontex that we brought to Court in March.
Alaa was left at sea for 17 hours, fearing for his life, with Frontex surveilling from above.
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