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Mediterranean sea > Crossing

June 2023

off the Greek coast

Adriana / Pylos shipwreck

Messenia migrant boat disaster

warning: graphic / distressing

A undated handout photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard

showing migrants onboard the Adriana

before it capsized off the coast of Greece.

Photograph: Hellenic Coast Guard/Reuters

Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped.

Satellite imagery, sealed court documents and interviews with survivors

suggest that hundreds of deaths were preventable.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff reported from Athens and Brussels.

Karam Shoumali reported from Berlin.

NYT

July 1, 2023    Updated 7:40 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/
world/europe/greece-migrant-ship.html

On 14 June 2023,

a fishing boat smuggling migrants

sank in international waters

in the Ionian Sea

off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece.

The boat,

which left Tobruk, Libya,

on 10 June,

carried an estimated 400

to 750 migrants.

The search and rescue effort

by Greek authorities

rescued 104 survivors

including Egyptians,

Syrians, Pakistanis,

Afghans, and Palestinians,

and recovered 82 bodies,

with hundreds more missing

and presumed dead.

Wikipedia - June 28, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster

warning: graphic / distressing

shipwreck        UK

2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/
600-people-drowning-eu-deters-migrants-adriana-tragedy

2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/
rights-groups-decry-greek-investigation-into-
migrant-shipwreck-that-left-more-than-500-dead

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/10/
greek-shipwreck-hi-tech-investigation-suggests-
coastguard-responsible-for-sinking

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/
disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-
as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/
the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-
yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-story

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/
suspected-smugglers-deny-charges-over-migrant-shipwreck-off-greece-
2023-06-20/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/
greek-shipwreck-migrant-boat-more-bodies-found

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/
the-guardian-view-on-danger-at-sea-looking-out-for-all-those-in-peril

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/
greek-coast-boat-sank-tracking-data

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/
i-have-come-for-a-sign-of-life-
relatives-cling-to-hope-after-greek-shipwreck

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/
fourteen-suspects-arrested-pakistan-over-greece-boat-disaster-
2023-06-19/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/
we-just-want-to-know-if-he-is-alive-or-dead-
migrants-desperate-for-news-of-relatives-
in-greece-shipwreck-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/17/
the-observer-view-on-the-greek-migrant-boat-tragedy-
the-west-must-admit-responsibility

https://www.reuters.com/podcasts/
podcast-hundreds-still-missing-off-greece-migrant-boat-capsizes-how-fly-an-f-16-
2023-06-15/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/
how-migrant-tragedy-unfolded-high-seas-off-greece-2023-06-15/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/
greek-coastguard-denies-claims-prevented-boat-disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
where-are-they-
hope-fades-among-relatives-of-missing-after-greek-shipwreck

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2023/jun/15/
just-stop-oil-london-protest-peru-thursdays-best-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greek-shipwreck-highlights-divided-libyas-inability-to-stem-flow-of-refugees

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-shipwreck-disaster-exposes-europes-deadly-failure

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/
greece-refugee-shipwreck-rescuers-scour-sea-for-survivors

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jun/15/
at-least-79-people-dead-and-hundreds-feared-missing-
as-refugee-boat-sinks-off-greece-video

capsizing        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/
the-guardian-view-
on-investigating-a-migrant-tragedy-bereaved-families-deserve-the-truth

June 2023 > Adriana shipwreck        UK

2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/
600-people-drowning-eu-deters-migrants-adriana-tragedy

shipwreck        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/
world/europe/greece-migrant-ship.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/
1184583494/migrant-shipwreck-mediterranean-greece-syrian-refugee

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/
1184581187/migrant-deaths-mediterranean-crossing

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/06/27/
1184484364/they-set-sail-with-dreams-and-met-disaster-
stories-from-the-ill-fated-migrant-sh

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/africa/
migrants-deaths-mediterranean.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/29/
479925444/more-than-700-migrants-feared-dead-
in-three-separate-mediterranean-shipwrecks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/
world/europe/migrants-europe-lampedusa-sinking.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/09/
230794848/after-boat-tragedy-calls-for-a-unified-european-policy

naufrage        FR

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/archive/160623

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/190623/
grece-le-naufrage-percute-la-campagne-electorale

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/170623/
apres-le-naufrage-
des-survivants-denoncent-les-gardes-cotes-grecs-et-frontex

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/150623/
migrants-qui-se-soucie-encore-de-quelques-centaines-de-morts

Missing Migrants Project

Missing Migrants Project

is an initiative implemented since 2014

by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)

to document deaths and disappearances of people

in the process of migration

towards an international destination.

As collecting information is challenging,

all figures remain undercounted.

The locations in most cases are approximate.

Each number represents a person,

as well as the family and community

that they leave behind.

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/region/
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