Since March, at least 1,072 asylum seekers have been dropped at sea by Greek officials in at least 31 separate expulsions, according to an analysis of evidence by The New York Times from three independent watchdogs, two academic researchers and the Turkish Coast Guard. The Times interviewed survivors from five of those episodes and reviewed photographic or video evidence from all 31.
“It was very inhumane,” said Najma al-Khatib, a 50-year-old Syrian teacher, who says masked Greek officials took her and 22 others, including two babies, under cover of darkness from a detention center on the island of Rhodes on July 26 and abandoned them in a rudderless, motorless life raft before they were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard.
“I left Syria for fear of bombing — but when this happened, I wished I’d died under a bomb,” she told The Times.
It's fascinating how German chuds, who will never tire to call any leftist an apologist for the "wall-building socialist regime that murdered 800 people at the inner-German border" just shrug off the fact that an estimated 24,000 people have died at the outer EU borders. In fact, they don't see anything wrong with calling the same leftists out on "open-border ideology" one sentence later.
Hey could I get a source on the 24k so I can shut chuds up?
Here is a Guardian article on it, it's 34k.
I've dug up the source for my claim and found out it's from 2015. Thanks for finding a more recent and detailed article.
I just saw where the difference comes from, your sauce counts from 2000 onwards and the one the Guardian reported on goes back to 1993.
There ya go: https://katapult-magazin.de/en/artikel/artikel/fulltext/no-deaths-in-the-mediterranean-sea/