Four police officers convicted after Turkish detainee escapes at sea

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The Misdemeanor Court of Mytilene recovered 4 constabulary officers blameworthy connected charges of allowing a detainee to flight and sentenced them to 5 months and ten days successful prison, with the close to appeal.

The 4 officers from Attica had been escorting a 32-year-old Turkish detainee aboard the vessel Ariadne, traveling from Piraeus to Mytilene. He was scheduled to stand trial astatine the Court of Appeals connected charges of migrant smuggling.

In the aboriginal hours of August 31, during the transfer, the detainee, who was handcuffed, jumped into the oversea disconnected the seashore of Chios and disappeared.

It remains unknown whether helium drowned oregon managed to swim away.

He had been arrested connected July 7 by the Lesvos Port Authority successful transportation with a migrant trafficking lawsuit connected the land and had been ordered into pre-trial detention astatine Korydallos Prison.