The EU’s border agency Frontex has defended its position of not issuing an alert on an overcrowded fishing vessel that sank off the Greek coast last year, which claimed over 600 lives.
“The simple fact that it is crowded does not qualify it as a distress case,” said Hans Leijtens, the agency’s director on Tuesday (5 March), in the context of last June’s Pylos shipwreck off the Greek coast.
Published by: euobserver.com
