A newly released British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary on the plight of African immigrants hoping to enter Greece paints a grim picture of their treatment in the hands of officials of the southeast European country. According to the documentary entitled “Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?”, over a three-year period, the Greek coastguard caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water. Said the BBC report: “We showed footage of 12 people being loaded into a Greek coastguard boat, and then abandoned on a dinghy, to a former senior Greek coastguard officer. When he got up from his chair, and with his…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
