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The Guardian - UK
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Katy Fallon in Samos

‘It’s an atrocity against humankind’: Greek pushback blamed for double drowning

The Turkish coastguard pick up refugees cast adrift on lifeboats from Samos in the incident last September.
The Turkish coastguard pick up refugees cast adrift on lifeboats from Samos in the incident last September. Photograph: Turkish Coast Guard

On 15 September 2021, Sidy Keita from Ivory Coast and Didier Martial Kouamou Nana from Cameroon, boarded a dinghy from Turkey to Greece. Despite making it to the Greek island of Samos, their bodies were found days later, washed ashore in Aydin province, on the Aegean coast.

Interviews with more than a dozen witnesses, analysis of classified documents, satellite imagery, social media accounts and online material, and discussions with officials in Turkey and Greece, have helped piece together what happened over five September days during which the two men died, likely victims of a pushback by the Greek authorities.

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