In a shootout between an EU patrol boat and tugs in the Aegean Sea, a 17-year-old refugee was killed. The armed traffickers had rammed the boat of border guards and apparently opened fire.
The 17-year-old refugee had chosen a supposed safe flight over the Aegean Sea: Not in a boat could capsize that, but in an ocean-going yacht. Tug demand for significantly more money, up to 2,000 euros per person. But the yacht with the young man and 70 other refugees on board fell yesterday to the attention of European border guards.
tractor ramming EU-boat
A Patrouillienboot the EU border mission Frontex stopped the yacht, but the smugglers tried to escape. Multiple they rammed the boat of border guards. One of the smugglers have even tried a border guards to snatch the service weapon, reports the Greek coast guard. After not yet officially confirmed information from circles of the Coast Guard, the smugglers have opened fire against the patrol boat. Its crew returned the shots. This apparently was the shot, by which the 17-year-old refugee was killed.
The migrants boat could then be stopped. Three traffickers were arrested. Below deck the dead young man was discovered with a gunshot wound
4000 new refugees -. Per day
Because of the calm weather make currently very many refugees on the way to the Greek islands. Journalists report, solely on the island of Lesbos had on Saturday about 4,000 refugees arrived in 100 boats. Kate O’Sullivan of the aid organization “Save the Children” therefore calls on the EU to urgently send more aid to the Greek islands. “Here many children and families who stay in parks or sleeping on the roadside also in the refugee camps are have they often lack access to drinking water or food. Medical care is woefully inadequate. “
The refugees are placed on the Greek Islands on itself, so also the student Samu from the Syrian capital Damascus. He even had some money with me, wanted a hotel pay, but: “We have no hotel found – all fully occupied, we had no place to sleep, nothing But fortunately there are many good people who help us..” says the young man from Damascus. Even if the states on the Greek Islands for refugees are inhumane – here he feels safe. He is happy to have escaped the war in his native
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