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On April 18, 2013, a farmer from Nea Maolada and his guards shot with huntguns on Bangladeshis farm workers came to claim their unpaid wages, injuring twenty eight of them.

The tribunal innocent the farmer and one of the guards, while another security guard was convicted of “harming the physical integrity” and the third accomplice. This indulgence has led to strong protests in Greece.

January 20, 2014, featuring a Greek Coast Guard vessel push back to Turkey – which is illegal – a boat carrying twenty-seven exiles. Maneuvers of the vessel capsize the boat. Sixteen people manage to climb onto the ship, while three women and eight children drown without the coastguards give them assistance.

The case has been closed without further action by the Greek justice.

In French :

http://balkans.courriers.info/article25369.html

http://balkans.courriers.info/article25374.html

http://www.okeanews.fr/20140801-justice-aveugle-les-verdicts-racistes-en-grece

In English :

http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2014/08/01/greek-farmers-who-shot-28-workers-for-demanding-pay-walk-free-from-court-in-scandalous-racist-verdict/

http://infomobile.w2eu.net/2014/08/01/case-closed-in-greece-survivors-of-farmakonisi-shipwreck-decide-to-appeal-before-the-european-human-rights-court/

http://infomobile.w2eu.net/files/2014/08/Briefing-on-Farmakonisi_31-July.pdf