“Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean.
Just weeks ago, the Greek Naval Court confirmed what survivors and civil society have long known: Greek coast guard officials should bear a full investigation in their actions and responsibility for this shipwreck, a state crime that could have been prevented.
However, too often, states like Greece and Italy criminalize survivors. For this shipwreck, nine Egyptian men, the “Pylos 9, were scapegoated, accused of smuggling and causing the tragedy. They were imprisoned for nearly a year before finally being acquitted in May 2024.
Let us not be misguided by this attempt of throwing dust in public opinion’s eyes and putting the blame elsewhere rather than on the State and its bodies’ authority to act and prevent any loss of human life. These smuggling rings that governments claim to be against would not even exist if European states opened borders not just for the privileged but to anyone that decided to build a life elsewhere, even in their territories.
As the families of Pylos victims said recently in a message to the relatives of those who died in a deadly train crash in Greece:
“Let our tears become a sea of rage.”
We echo that rage.
Dr. Coyote, Conspiracy Therapist
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