Greek coast guard deliberately sink boat full of refugees

zainab quadri

November 23, 2015 9:14 AM

A horrific video of a Greek coast guard deliberately sinking a life raft full of refugees has gone viral.

Pictures of Greek coast guard ‘deliberately sinking boat full of refugees’ goes viral

The footage shows a crewman on a Greek-marked coast guard ship jabbing a sharp pole into an inflatable boat full of people.

The 58 passengers on board the raft start to scream with fear while the vessel sinks – and the Greek ship sails away.

A Turkish boat later arrives and pulls the refugees out of the water. They were then taken to the Turkish port city of Didim.

After the video was released by the Turkish government, a Turkish government official told Middle East Eye, on the condition of anonymity that:

The Turkish coast guard regularly films its rescue operations, and has previously shared footage with international media,’

‘But this is shocking. We expect that this footage will be investigated – it’s difficult for us to understand why they would try to sink a refugee boat.’ he added.

Metro UK reported that Amnesty International also viewed the footage, and said it was ‘profoundly concerned’. It has now urged the Greek authorities to launch a ‘prompt, thorough and impartial investigation into the incident.

Watch the video below.

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