Speech - intervention of MEP Costas Arvanitis in the Plenary of the European Parliament, on the responsibilities of Frontex, for the violation of fundamental rights at the external borders of the EU, in the light of the #OLAF report.
«First of all we would like to thank #OLAF for confirming what we knew. But why shouldn't the public know, why is this report secret and why should citizens find out through the press?;
Mr. Lezzeri resigned, or «we resigned» him. In 1TP5Greece Mr. Lezzeri was rewarded, for exactly the same reasons. So there is a contradiction here.
92 people naked on the border with #urkey. 120 people in the presence of Frontex in Italy. 75 Afghan refugees with pushbacks from #Bulgaria to Greece. In #urkey 10 dead and at least 15 missing.
The ships have come, Commissioner, they are coming, from Izmir to wherever they arrive, to burst on the rocks and drown people or some will be lost in international waters and a few will be saved.
What is happening today is genocide. People are drowning in the Aegean Sea, people are drowning in the European Sea and this is the issue of Frontex. Is there search and rescue in this organisation?;
What exactly does Frontex do when it sees a vessel coming from Turkey? Do we leave them in international waters? And then what? That is the big question. Of course this story should not stop here.».
