Jun 12, 2022
In today's
episode, we speak with lawyers Alexandros
Georgoulis and Dimitris Choulis about the
controversial legal case they worked on known as the Samos
2.
The Samos 2
are two Afghan refugees who tried to reach Greece by boat with 22
others in November 2020. Their boat got into trouble as it neared
the island of Samos and capsized.
The Greek
coastguards were aware of the incident, but did not launch a
rescue.
The next
day, one of the refugees, known only as N, found the body of his
six-year-old son on the rocks. The cops arrested him and charged
him with "endangering the life of his child." He faced 10 years in
prison.
Hasan,
another one of the refugees on the boat that night, was also
arrested and charged with human trafficking because the authorities
said he drove the boat. He faced 230 years behind
bars.
Then in May
2022, both N and Hasan were freed and can now try to rebuild their
lives in Greece.
Alexandros
and Dimitris, who represented the Samos 2, are going to tell us
about the injustice caused by the Samos 2 case, and the absurd EU
directive that is causing refugees to be charged with human
trafficking.
---Show
notes---
For more on
the Amir Zahiri and Akif Rasuli case, which Alexandros talks about,
see here: bit.ly/39oAt1g
The
Civil Fleet's
stories on Greece can be found here: bit.ly/3QgPnHu.
Iason
Apostolopoulos, mentioned right at the beginning of the interview,
is a Greek rescue worker. We interviewed him on episode
18.
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