‘They Just Left Us’: Greece Is Accused of Location Migrants Adrift at Sea
ABOARD A TURKISH Coast GUARD VESSEL — Moist and shaken, ladies and little ones were being pulled aboard the Turkish patrol boat initially, then the males and a lot more little ones.
A 7-yr-aged girl in striped leggings, Heliah Nazari, shivered uncontrollably as she was established down on the deck. An more mature female retched into a plastic bag.
They were two of 20 asylum seekers from Afghanistan who had been drifting in the darkish, abandoned in rudderless rafts for 4 hours before the Turkish Coastline Guard attained them.
Just several hours previously they had been resting in a forest on the Greek island of Lesbos when they had been caught by Greek police officers who confiscated their documents, dollars and cellphones and ferried them out to sea.
“They kicked us all, with their feet, even the youngsters, gals, gentlemen and every person,” stated Ashraf Salih, 21, recounting their story.
