Supreme Court deputy prosecutor to supervise investigation into migrant shipwreck off Pylos
epa10692179 Survivors of a ship sit inside warehouse at the port town, after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in international waters in the Ionian Sea, in Kalamata, southwest of Athens, Greece, 15 June 2023. A total of 104 individuals were rescued, while 79 bodies were recovered, after a fishing boat capsized in international waters some 47 nautical miles southwest of the Peloponnese coast and the town of Pylos. EPA/Angelos Tzortzinis / POOL HUNGARY OUT
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Supreme Court (Areios Paghos) Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos on Thursday appointed a Supreme Criminal Court deputy prosecutor to supervise the investigation into the migrant boat sinking in international waters off the coast of the Peloponnese.
At Dogiakos’ orders, the supervision of the inquiry and investigative actions carried out over the shipwreck will be assigned to Areios Paghos Deputy Prosecutor Georgios Ikonomou.
Already in Kalamata, supervising an investigation to locate the traffickers and determine the causes of the tragic accident that is underway, is the head of the Kalamata prosecutors’ department Polyxeni Tsouli.
Meanwhile, The bodies of the 78 dead migrants recovered after the sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Pylos were transferred to Athens on Thursday. The bodies were transported in refrigerator trucks to a special facility in Schisto, in order to undergo post mortem examinations that will clarify the causes of death.
The autopsies will be carried out by the Coroner’s services in Athens and Pireaus as there in no such facility in Kalamata.
Source: ANA – MPA
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