User:Oceanflynn/Timeline of the 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster

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June 2023

 * 10 June The migrant boat, the Adriana, left Tobruk, Libya, on 10 June with an estimated 400 to 750 migrants.


 * 13 June
 * 9:55 a.m. EEST Nawal Soufi, an activist posted on Twitter (now X), that the Adriana fishing vessel which had 750 passengers was in distress. She wrote, "At this moment I was told by the group of migrants on board the boat in distress with 750 people that 6 people are dead and two others are in critical condition. I hope from the bottom of my heart to be proven wrong by someone." Her second tweet included the coordinates of the fishing boat.
 * 11:00 a.m. EEST The Italian coast guard alerted Greek authorities and the European Union (EU) border protection agency, Frontex, of a vessel in distress.
 * 1:35 p.m. The HCG report said that the a HCG helicopter was dispatched and took off from Mytilene heading towards the fishing boat's location. The helicopter began to observe the Adriana. and reported that the migrant boat was "sailing with a steady course and speed with the ability."
 * 2:00 p.m. The HCG made their first contact with the migrant boat.
 * 6:00 p.m. The HCG helicopter reported that the Adriana was still "sailing on a steady course".
 * Soon after 6:00 PM a person onboard the Adriana with a satellite phone told the coast guard that they needed food and water. The coast guard reported that that person said their ship's destination was Italy.
 * 9:00 p.m. BBC investigates said that the "overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized".
 * 9:45 p.m. In his report to the Hellenic Search and Rescue Center, Panagiotis Konstantinidis, Captain of the merchant vessel, the Faithful Warrior said that there was overcrowding on the decks of the fishing trawler that was causing it to "rock dangerously". Shortly after, passengers on the trawler threw supplies off the boat and into the water.


 * 14 June
 * After midnight, there were merchant ships delivering supplies to the migrant boat. The person with the satellite phone reported that they ship had an engine problem.
 * 13:06 AM EEST Early Wednesday morning
 * Early morning on Wednesday, 40 minutes after the satellite phone call, the migrant boat "began to rock violently," according to a statement from the HCG.
 * At 2:04 AM EEST on Wednesday the boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, in international waters, 80 km from the town of Pylos, Messenia.
 * The HCG announced a large-scale search and rescue operation.
 * Of the 104 survivors all were men. Nine Egyptian survivors were arrested for their role as alleged traffickers. Each passenger was charged $4,500, which meant that the traffickers could have potential made more than $3 million.
 * 15 June
 * Amnesty International expressed deep concern about the "lack of clarity in the Greek authorities' version of the incident." AI researcher, Adriana Tidona, questioned why it took so long to launch a search and rescue operation and what caused the ship to capsize.
 * On Thursday there were protests criticizing the HCG's operation in Athens, including some that were violent.


 * 21 June PBS reported that Greece was facing criticism, especially because the HCG was given information about the "stricken vessel 15 hours before it went down". This picture was taken from a Coast Guard cutter.


 * 22 June
 * Frontex launched a "serious incident report". Frontex agencies "will record potential human rights violations" to submit to the European Parliament and other investigative agencies, but will not undertake an investigation.
 * The Economist described the tragedy as "one of the worst disasters in the Mediterranean."


 * 25 June In the June 2023 Greek legislative election, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of the New Democracy party won a second term as Prime Minister.


 * 26 June NPR reported that authorities in both Greece and Europe were facing criticism for not doing more to prevent the deaths of hundreds of people. The report said that many of the 104 survivors are Syrians, Pakistanis and Egyptians and are being held in a refugee camp near Athens. NPR said that international law experts say that Greece has an obligation to act to prevent the deaths even if people on the vessel refused assistance. At first, Greek authorities denied that they had attached a rope to the migrant boat. In the third week in June, they changed the narrative to say that they had tried to use a rope to stabilize the boat.

July 2023

 * 5 July The Washington Post published a series of articles on the shipwreck which included mapping the route of the Adriana.
 * 10 July Following the tragedy, a joint investigative team of researchers and journalists, including Solomon, the Forensis research groupa sister organization of Forensic Architecture, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and the German national broadcaster, ARD. examined court documents, sources from the coastguards, as well as survivors' interviews and found evidence contradicting the coast guards' original reports.


 * 14 July The International Rescue Committee (IRC) called for a full, transparent investigation into the shipwreck to include Frontex's involvement and the role of European Union member states.


 * 14 July Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) reported on the survivors and investigation one month after the tragedy.


 * 27 July Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) created a timeline and archive of the Pylos shipwreck based on published sources.