"On June 13, 2023, the rusty fishing trawler Adriana, overloaded with as many as 750 migrants nearly double its official capacity was en route from Libya to Italy when it came into distress. According to accounts by Greece's coast guard, the people on board "refused any help," leaving the coast guard to observe the situation and launch a search and rescue operation after the boat sank."
""By order of the prosecutor of the court of appeal, criminal proceedings are to be brought against four senior officers of the coastguard, including its current chief [Trifonas Kontizas]," the groups said in a statement provided to the AFP news agency. But in a conflicting account, survivors say the coast guard took hours to respond to their visible distress and actively caused the vessel to capsize and sink with the "sudden and powerful" manner in which it towed the Adriana toward the coast."
The chief of the Greek coast guard and three senior officers are being prosecuted for negligent manslaughter over the June 13, 2023 sinking of the Adriana, a rusty trawler overloaded with up to 750 migrants. Nearly 650 people died in the incident off Pylos. Survivors and victims' families pressed charges after a naval court of appeal reopened the case following an earlier clearance by a lower maritime court. The coast guard says those onboard refused help and that a search and rescue operation was launched after sinking. Survivors allege slow response and that towing by the coast guard caused the vessel to capsize and sink.
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