Six days have elapsed since a fishing trawler piloted by people smugglers sank with unimaginable loss of life off Greece and yet they still come: relatives armed with pictures, praying that in the aftermath of the maritime disaster, loved ones are not among the perished. On Monday it was outside the steel gates of a migrant facility in Malakasa, north of Athens, that emotions were on display.
“I have come for a sign of life of my uncle Nadim,” said Zohaib Shamraiz whose first stop was the fenced camp after flying into Greece from Barcelona. “I know for sure he was on the boat because I talked to him five minutes before he boarded. He said there were hundreds on the ship and I told him: ‘Please don’t get on it. Wait for another one.’”
