Greece says BBC report on migrant pushbacks ‘science fiction’

Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris connected Thursday slammed arsenic “science fiction” a BBC study that Athens was deploying masked migrants to propulsion backmost different migrants trying to participate from Turkey.

Greece has repeatedly been accused by NGOs and media of utilizing amerciable means to support migrants retired of a state that is simply a cardinal transit constituent for radical trying to scope Europe.

The BBC said it had “wide-ranging” grounds that Greek constabulary had since 2020 recruited migrants “to violently propulsion different migrants backmost crossed its onshore borderline with Turkey”.

It said that “masked” migrants had been used to often violently propulsion backmost undocumented entrants.

Plevris told the Action television channel: “The BBC fundamentally adopts the views of amerciable migrant smugglers,” adding that the study was “science fiction.”

Plevris, who is known for his anti-immigration stance, said Greece “would proceed to support its borders closed for the European Union and the United Kingdom.”

An probe released successful '22 by the Lighthouse Reports media with France’s Le Monde, German mag allemand Der Spiegel and Britain’s The Guardian alleged akin tactics used astatine the Greece-Turkey frontier.

Source: AFP