The heatwave is the good news these days 

Dear reader,

This is our weekly round-up from Greece while the country is experiencing extremely high temperatures.

International media haven’t given up on investigating the Pylos shipwreck. Every new revelation tips the scale against the Greek authorities - no one believes their version of the story anymore.

A policeman shot a 20-year-old Syrian man during a car chase. Sounds familiar? This is because it’s the latest in a spate of similar incidents in Greece, reviving the debate around police violence in the country.

Greek police and media misgendered a trans woman who was found brutally killed in her flat. Organizations and lawmakers have spoken up so that Anna Ivanka, the late drag queen who often hosted homeless trans people in her apartment, could find some justice after her death.   

Pylos shipwreck: Greece & Frontex play cat and mouse, over 500 deaths

“A month after a boat carrying migrants to Europe sank in the eastern Mediterranean, the estimated death toll from the disaster has risen to around 500, according to the U.N. human rights office — making it one of the deadliest single incidents involving migrants in EU history,” Politico reported (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) on Friday.

Last week, Solomon, in a joint investigation with the research group Forensis, The Guardian and German public broadcaster ARD revealed (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) that the Coast Guard vessel ΠΠΛΣ-920, the only vessel present at the time the Adriana capsized, was obligated to “document its operation by video-recording” in accordance with a 2021 Frontex document which recommends that the Greek authorities record their operations continually. “If this had been done, today there would be answers to the questions that the victims’ families are still asking,” the report concluded.