Turkey has been bullying and provoking Greece for quite some time, while aiding Muslim migrants to invade Greece, with the help of people smugglers. Greece is an important entry point to the wealthier nations of the European Union, and its problem with illegals and smugglers hasn’t let up. Recently, a Greek border guard was shot by what was believed to be a migrant smuggler while he was patrolling the unsafe border with Turkey.
Tensions are escalating. The profiteering smugglers, who are sometimes presented as offering a “helping hand” to refugees, are becoming more aggressive, as well as desperate to avoid capture by Greek coast guards. According to the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News: “Greek Coast Guard Units have said that they have observed a shift in the ‘tactics of human smugglers’ operating in the Aegean Sea, now employing speedboats manned by armed operators, thereby escalating the potential for violent encounters.”
Now, the smugglers are posing not only a risk to Greek border guards, but they’ve turned on the migrants themselves in order to save their own skins.
“Smugglers throwing migrants off speedboats in Aegean Sea to avoid arrest, says Greek coast guard,” Associated Press, August 27, 2024:
ATHENS, Greece — Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say.
All eight migrants were rescued in both cases, which occurred over the weekend. The incidents come as smugglers using speedboats, instead of the flimsy inflatable dinghies with small engines they favored for years, adopt increasingly aggressive tactics to dodge Greek marine patrols.
Last week, coast guards opened fire, killing one migrant, after a speedboat allegedly rammed their vessel in the eastern Aegean Sea during a chase.
The Greek coast guard said Tuesday that in one case over the weekend a Palestinian and an Afghan man piloting a speedboat also tried to ram a pursuing patrol boat off the island of Kos. It said they then allegedly forced five passengers to jump into the sea, escaping towards the island as the coast guards stopped to rescue the migrants.
Thirty migrants from the boat were later located on land, while the two suspected smugglers were arrested.
In a second incident off the island of Symi, three migrants were forced off the smuggling boat in mid-chase, the Greek coast guard said. That allowed the smugglers to return to Turkish waters with their remaining passengers….
ALfromNY says
It boggles the mind how suicidally stupid the EU is to allow their CIVILIZED countries to be invaded by people who have their own (shiiteHole) countries, and who believe they are superior to the citizens of the EU by way of their evil so-called religion, islam. After 1400 years of moslem invasions of Europe, and with knowledge of the Trojan Horse, they allow these invaders to suck their countries dry at the expense of the hard-working citizens of the EU.
America is making the same mistake.
NO COUNTRY HAS BEEN IMPROVED BY ISLAM.
SKA says
If the migrants sink to the bottom and drown then they were innocent folks and you pray for their souls. If they float then, according to Sir Belvedere the Wise, you burn them.