Migrant shipwreck in Greece, unsuccessful searches: no survivors

No survivors have been located in searches performed these days in the Ionian Sea in Greece South after the sinking of the fishing boat on which masses of migrants have been traveling off the coast of the Peloponnese. The Ekathimerini newspaper writes it, explaining that masses of people are nevertheless lacking.

According to media reports, there had been between four hundred and 750 migrants on board the vessel, inclusive of 100 youngsters. So a ways 104 people were rescued, while seventy nine our bodies had been discovered. There can also had been as many as one hundred youngsters in the keep.

9 PEOPLE ARRESTED

The Greek authorities have meanwhile arrested 9 people, the alleged traffickers of the group of the vessel. The arrests had been made at the port of Kalamata. The nine alleged traffickers, Egyptians aged between 20 and forty, are some of the one zero five survivors of the shipwreck. They are accused of manslaughter, human trafficking and being part of a criminal enterprise. In the next few hours, all of the other survivors may be taken to a reception center north of Athens wherein they will be registered and from in which they'll be capable of gift their asylum request.

The Greek Coast Guard has prolonged the location of ​​seek and rescue operations off the southwest coast of the usa. But the search could be suspended these days.

BETWEEN four THOUSAND AND 6 THOUSAND EUROS TO LEAVE ON THE SUCKED FISHING BOAT

Between four,000 and six,000 euros. The migrants could have paid so much for the adventure of wish that has turn out to be but some other tragedy of the sea. The survivors advised it.

FRONTEX DATA ON ARRIVALS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

The number of abnormal crossings of the EU external border detected within the first 5 months of 2023 along the Central Mediterranean path greater than doubled compared to the first five months of 2022, to 50,318, an growth of 158%, attaining the best in view that 2017. Irregular arrivals in Italy represent about half of of the overall arrivals inside the EU, which reached 102,000 inside the identical length, an increase of 12%. Frontex communicates it. All different migration routes noticed declines in arrivals inside the first five months of this yr, from -6% inside the Western Mediterranean (to the Iberian Peninsula) to -47% on the West African route (to the Canaries). The Western Balkans, the second one maximum traveled route, also noticed a 25% drop in the first 5 months, with 30,717 detections. The important nationalities a few of the arrivals in Italy within the first five months are the Ivory Coast, Egypt and Guinea; at the Balkan direction, Syrians, Afghans and Turks prevail.