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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent

‘It was horrible’: Syrian man deported from Greece tells of family’s trauma

A Frontex vessel accompanying a crowded dinghy off the Greek island of Lesbos in 2020.
A Frontex vessel accompanying a crowded dinghy off the Greek island of Lesbos in 2020. Photograph: Michael Varaklas/AP

A Syrian man who fled the civil war in 2016 and ended up being deported by the EU border protection agency instead of having an asylum application processed has spoken of the trauma his young family experienced at the hands of officials in Greece.

On Wednesday, the man – who has asked for anonymity – lost a landmark case against Frontex, which in 2016 had chartered a plane to take him from Greece to be settled in a refugee camp in Turkey.

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