L'ultima vittima della guerra alla mobilità dei poveri, ha soltanto 16 anni. Si tratta di un adolescente siriano. Era a bordo di una barca intercettata dalle motovedette greche alla frontiera con la Turchia lungo il fiume Evros. E' bastata una manovra azzardata durante l'inseguimento, e la barca si è rovesciata in mare causando il ferimento di due passeggeri e la morte del ragazzo. A bordo della motovedetta delle autorità greche, si trovavano anche funzionari dell'agenzia europea per il pattugliamento delle frontiere esterne, Frontex, che nella zona coordina una missione di contrasto della circolazione di esseri umani verso la fortezza Europa. Di seguito i dettagli della notizia, che risale allo scorso primo dicembre.
16-year-old sans-papiers killed in FRONTEX-aided police pursuit
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ATHENS, 3 December 2011 - A 16-year-old boy from Syria, trying to enter Greece from Turkey, lost his life in a police pursuit in the border region of Evros on Thursday, December 1, 2011. The boy was found dead when the vehicle driven by a smuggler lost control and was overturned in the area of Makri, Evros.
The incident happened when Greek border policemen and officials of FRONTEX tried to immobilize two vehicles carrying sans papiers immigrants, moving on Egnatia Odos towards the city of Komotini. The smugglers speeded up and managed to escape.
After a while there was a second attempt by the police to stop the vehicles, at the Makri junction. One of the vehicles crashed, while the second managed to escape. In the vehicle, policemen found a 36-year-old smuggler, two injured immigrants and the dead 16-year-old boy from Syria.
16-year-old sans-papiers killed in FRONTEX-aided police pursuit
tratto da Clandestina English
ATHENS, 3 December 2011 - A 16-year-old boy from Syria, trying to enter Greece from Turkey, lost his life in a police pursuit in the border region of Evros on Thursday, December 1, 2011. The boy was found dead when the vehicle driven by a smuggler lost control and was overturned in the area of Makri, Evros.
The incident happened when Greek border policemen and officials of FRONTEX tried to immobilize two vehicles carrying sans papiers immigrants, moving on Egnatia Odos towards the city of Komotini. The smugglers speeded up and managed to escape.
After a while there was a second attempt by the police to stop the vehicles, at the Makri junction. One of the vehicles crashed, while the second managed to escape. In the vehicle, policemen found a 36-year-old smuggler, two injured immigrants and the dead 16-year-old boy from Syria.