Shipwreck in Pylos: The Saviors are in despair – they are looking for their people

“They are looking for friends and relatives. They are in a very bad mental state,” Stella Nano, representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said of the migrants rescued after the shipwreck off Pylos.

Speaking to ERT, he referred to the shipwreck in Pylos, saying “What we do know is that the ship set off from Libya. It was several days at sea. The ship was unseaworthyOne with people crammed into miserable conditions.”

“Recently, refugees are attempting increasingly dangerous journeys, risking the lives of their families,” he noted. “This should motivate us.” He added that the testimonies of the survivors “speak for” Women and children on boardBut as he indicated they were confused and not told Where were they?

He also noted that “if tomorrow some conflicts are stopped by some magical means in very critical parts of the planet, Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, The number of refugees will be halved». “During yesterday’s very sad day of the plane wreck, we published the annual statistical report of the High Commissioner which gives a picture of forced displacement on this planet completely by accident. The numbers and the numbers are very sad. We are talking about 110 million people who have been forced to leave their homes due to wars, conflicts, violence, and human rights violations Record “.

She asserted, “It is so The largest number of forcibly displaced persons since World War II. And unfortunately, this is a trend, an upward trend that we have been observing over the past 10 years.” Regarding whether there has been a change in the movement points of refugee flows recently, Stella Nano notes that “these patterns of people’s movements are constantly changing. Unfortunately, lately we see more and more people venturing out on more and more dangerous journeys. That is, the voyages either from the coasts of Turkey directly to Italy or from North Africa again to mainly Italy and other countries of the Mediterranean.

Coast Guard Spokesperson: Had we intervened, there was a risk that we would have wrecked

«We could have caused the ship to sink. Responding to criticism that there was no intervention, Coast Guard spokesman Captain Nikos Alexiou told SKAI, even though Legion ships approached the trawler and saw hundreds of people crammed onto its deck.

He added that the Coast Guard was not just an observer in the trawler’s path. Simple observers who save 104 lives do not exist. We were there trying to convince them to get help. They didn’t realize the danger.”

When asked if the shipwreck could have been avoided, Nikos Alexio said he lost his engine ten minutes before the sinking. If it hadn’t happened, they probably wouldn’t have moved on. We didn’t have to deal with arms or drug dealers.”

“We stayed by our side, if they needed us to save people, and that’s what we did,” said Nikos Alexiou. “We reported the presence of the ship to the Italian coast guard. We did what we had to do. They didn’t want to rescue, they didn’t want to come to Greece,” he added. Given the situation, we didn’t leaveHe said, explaining that “the boat lost its engine at dawn. People moved. The boat lost its center of gravity and capsized.”

Finally, the Coast Guard spokesperson said that no human traffickers have been arrested yet, but some are being examined as suspects and the screening process is underway. He confirmed that search and rescue operations are continuing.

Shipwreck in Pylos: There is no estimate of the number of people on board

“So far, 78 bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Pylos, which have been transported to Athens, for forensic examination, photographing, fluoroscopy, and biomaterial taking,” according to the representative of the Disaster Victim Identification Group to the Athenian-Macedonian. Police officer news agency Vassilis Makris.

“We are taking the statements of the 104 survivors of the wreck and trying to locate them How many other people were on board?while we investigate whether there is a clue to build one list of missing personshe added.

Regarding the estimates of the exact number of people who were on board the ship, Vassilis Makris noted that “the estimates cannot be accurate, because even the statements of the people who were on board appear Contradictions. These people “packed up” and stayed on top of each other and traveled for days. Nobody knows and Exactly how many days did they travel.”

“We feel sorrow and sympathy for these people who were in miserable circumstances, traveling for a better future,” he said in conclusion.

With information from APE-BE, SKAI, ERT