Author: borderviolencelesvos

Since 2020 there have been 3000 incidents in which people have been found in Turkish waters or shorelines after the Hellenic Coast Guard violently forced them back across the invisible sea border and left them adrift. Until now, more than 90,370 people were exposed to this atrocity.

In less than 4 and a half years the HCG, and their partners, have committed monstrous acts of torture, such as robbery, abductions, manslaughter and rape. It happens every day at the command of the Greek State and the European Union.

We do not believe in any legal system under capitalism and we know that the law is there only to protect those in power, but what now happens at the borders is an escalation on all levels. To be clear:
state actors are involved on a daily basis in actions that are prohibited even by the rules of war.

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The trial of the Pylos 9 will happen on 21 May in Kalamata. The 9 have been accused of causing the Adriana shipwreck in June 2023, which killed over 600 people. This shipwreck was a massacre carried out by the Hellenic Coast Guard. Yet the Greek state has put these 9 people on trial in an act of misdirection, hiding its own involvement.
When the state kills it covers its tracks with post-mortems that attribute cause of death elsewhere: some latent toxin, some foreign body, some other malignancy. The 9 have been identified as the cause of death to make sure we look no further. No state willingly and in good faith investigates its own murderous acts. Knowing this, we undertook a post-mortem ourselves:

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