ギリシャ沿岸警備隊への「疑惑」

　違法移民船を領海外に押し出したりしてるんじゃない？という疑惑。証言者を確保してちょっと長めの告発記事が出ている。…まあ末端ではさもありなん、という気はしてくる。

　記事タイトルからしてなかなか攻めてる。沿岸警備隊が移民を海に放り投げて死なしてる、と。

BBC Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say 9 hours ago
By Lucile Smith and Ben Steele

　どうも40名ほどは死亡させられているな、という。もちろんギリシャ当局は疑惑を否定する。

「The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water.

The nine are among more than 40 people alleged to have died as a result of being forced out of Greek territorial waters, or taken back out to sea after reaching Greek islands, BBC analysis has found.

The Greek coastguard told our investigation it strongly rejects all accusations of illegal activities.」

　2020年5月から2023年までに43名、15件発生した疑いとのこと。まあその、理解しうる数字。目撃者は基本的にみな死んでしまう性質のもので、もっとあっただろうなあ、という推測も十分ありえる。

「The 15 incidents we analysed - dated May 2020-23 - resulted in 43 deaths. The initial sources were primarily local media, NGOs and the Turkish coastguard.

Verifying such accounts is extremely difficult - witnesses often disappear, or are too fearful to speak out. But in four of these cases we were able to corroborate accounts by speaking with eye witnesses.」

　ようやく着いたぁ！とおもったら警察に拘束され、なんか警察は黒い服で偽装してるしなぞの民間人が三人もついてて、なぜか沿岸警備隊の船に乗せられて―で、海に放り投げられる。

「"We had barely docked, and the police came from behind," he told us. "There were two policemen dressed in black, and three others in civilian clothes. They were masked, you could only see their eyes."

He and two others - another from Cameroon and a man from Ivory Coast - were transferred to a Greek coastguard boat, he said, where events took a terrifying turn.

“They started with the [other] Cameroonian. They threw him in the water. The Ivorian man said: ‘Save me, I don’t want to die… and then eventually only his hand was above water, and his body was below.
"Slowly his hand slipped under, and the water engulfed him."」

　キオスについたらギリシャ軍に拘束され、沿岸警備隊に引き渡されて、後ろ手に縛られて水中に放棄された―とか。そりゃ殺人スタイルですわね。

「Another man, from Somalia, told the BBC how in March 2021 he had been caught by the Greek army on arrival on the island of Chios, who then handed him to the Greek coastguard.

He said the coastguard had tied his hands behind his back, before dropping him into the water.

"They threw me zip-tied in the middle of the sea. They wanted me to die," he said.」

　空気で膨らませるタイプのラフトを与えられたら―そのバルブが閉まってなくてあれよあれよというまに沈没とか。

「Mohamed, from Syria, told us they rang the Greek coastguard for help - who loaded them onto a boat, returned them to Turkish waters and put them in life rafts. Mohamed says the raft he and his family were given had not had its valve properly closed.」

　…私としては基本的には「見落とし」説をとりたく思っていたが、実際のところ一部分子によるテロ活動は十分あり得る。末端の腐敗と評価するだろうものだ。なにしろ

「Greece has always denied so-called “pushbacks” are taking place.

Greece is an entryway into Europe for many migrants. Last year, there were 263,048 sea arrivals in Europe, with Greece receiving 41,561 (16%) of those. Turkey signed a deal with the EU in 2016 to stop migrants and refugees crossing into Greece, but said in 2020 it could no longer enforce it.」

　移民希望者の受け入れは猛烈な数で。ですので、1年で40人を「処刑」するのは合理的な行動ではない。末端のならず者の気晴らし程度の数字である。いやそういう書き方はどうかと思うが、実際のところそんなもんであろう。とても警備隊自体の判断ではあり得ない。

　にしても末端のダメ警官・警備隊員が現に存在することを示唆するわけでもある。
　さっさと取り締まりした方がいいんだが、誰がどうというのもなかなか確定しにくそうだ。