At least nine people have been arrested in Greece after the investigation of the shipwreck last Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea, the Greek authorities have announced. The men detained by the authorities in the port of Kalamata are Egyptian nationals and are suspected of migrant smuggling.
Nearly 80 people died, more than 100 were rescued alive and hundreds of people are still missing as the coast guard continues to search. The fishing boat would have left Libya for Italy, but the agitation of the sea caused the shipwreck.
Among the detainees is not the captain of the fishing boat that sank. He is also believed to have died in the accident with the fishing boat carrying some 750 migrants.
During the night there were demonstrations in several Greek cities. In Athens, the protest against the migration policies of the European Union brought together some 8 thousand people.
Some protesters threw ‘Molotov cocktails’ at riot police, who responded with tear gas. Former Greek prime minister and now opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has accused the European Union’s migration policy of turning the Mediterranean into the waters of death.
When he headed the government, Alexis Tsipras cracked down on migrants, building walls in the camps and tightening border controls. Greece now has an interim government, pending elections next week.
Source: TSF
