• @[email protected]
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      -423 months ago

      They are voting for murdering desperate people

      We have laws in Europe. No political party that would allow that would be legal

      • @thesporkeffect
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        303 months ago

        I pressed the up arrow with the understanding that this is satire. I will retract my feedback in the event I am wrong

  • @jpreston2005
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    773 months ago

    Wow. The video of the Greek official, denying everything during the official interview (whilst seeing video of a migrant woman and her child, forced onto a boat by armed men, who were then left in a dinghy to float towards Turkey), then caught with a hot mic during the break, talking to a colleague, saying:

    “I haven’t told them much, right? It’s very clear, isn’t it. It’s not nuclear physics. I don’t know why they did it in broad daylight… It’s… obviously illegal. It’s an international crime.”

    This migrant crisis will only get worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      323 months ago

      “That’s something that happens. The migrants travelling the Aegean Sea, very often they abandon the children. They don’t seem to have the same… affection we have for children.”

      The blatant dehumanisation is sickening as well.

      • @jpreston2005
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        123 months ago

        Yes that bit caught me off guard. How this dude just said migrants don’t care about their children… Like, my brother in christ, why do you think they’re fighting so hard to migrate somewhere better?

    • @nogooduser
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      93 months ago

      It’s like he’d never seen The Jinx.

  • @anlumo
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    463 months ago

    When the Right talks about stopping immigration, that’s what they actually mean.

    • Lad
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      123 months ago

      In the UK the far-right often talk about wanting to use the Royal Navy to sink migrant boats. It’s sick.

  • acargitz
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    303 months ago

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

    • @Trail
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      63 months ago

      That’s what I hate the most.

  • @tourist
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    183 months ago

    If hell is real it won’t be adequate punishment for these assholes

  • @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    Fun History Fact:

    Between 1967 and 1974 a Greek military junta overthrew the government because they didn’t like the election results.

    20% of the population still approves of it. 19% don’t have a strong opinion on a fascist takeover of democracy and the suspension of human rights in Greece.

    30% of the population has nostalgia for the period.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    53 months ago

    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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    • @Feathercrown
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      13 months ago

      Why are there no spaces between sentences?

  • @Linkerbaan
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    -13 months ago

    No wonder the EU wanted to give 1 billion to the Tunesian dictator to throw migrants in the desert

  • @timmymac
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    -243 months ago

    Somehow the word illegal is always missed when saying immigrants.

    • @yildolw
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      Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

      • @timmymac
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        -173 months ago

        Didn’t wish death on these people. Just saying that the word illegal is always skipped.

        • @SeriousMite
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          173 months ago

          Calling people “illegal” is dehumanizing. The fact that this is what outrages you in this story kind of says it all.

          • @[email protected]
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            103 months ago

            It is also factually wrong. The “legality” can only be determined by a lawful process after the people fled. Seeking refugee is a human right and the EU is happy to annihilate it for non white people.

          • @timmymac
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            -73 months ago

            Not calling them illegal makes you the problem.