Author Archives: Tommy Olsen

A boat carrying approximately 30 people, many of them children, in distress outside Lesvos north east. Greek coast guard once again are performing illegal pushbacks, on Europe’s outer border. Greek coast guard allegedly destroyed the engin on the boat to stop it from reaching Lesvos, afterwards, as you can see in the video, they towedContinue reading “HCG drag boat back towards Turkey.”

June 13th. Boat with 32 refugees from Afghanistan incl. 11 women one of which 8-months pregnant & 11 children in distress North of Lesvos. They cannot move forward & some are injured. They are waiting for rescue since our first call at 6:34 CET. Greek Coast Guard vessel 080 and others are already at theContinue reading “HCG refuce to rescue people in distress.”

Another pushback video was published by Turkish coast guard, showing three vessels from the Greek Coast Guard while they were forcefully putting people in a rubber boat without a engine, and leaving them drifting at sea. This pushback happened on Friday evening, allegedly outside Lesvos north, location can not be verified from data in theContinue reading “Refugees forced in to a rubber boat by HCG.”

A boat carrying 32 people was in distress outside Lesvos north east this morning. Their engine had been removed by Greek coast guard, they also used their boat to make waves, so that the refugee boat would drift towards Turkey. They where left helpless in the sea, drifting. People onboard jumped in the sea, andContinue reading “German Frontex interveen after pushback attempt June 4th.”

A boat carrying approximately 40 people that was trying to cross towards Lesvos south from Turkey was brutally pushed back by the Greek coast guard 11.00 this morning. The Hellenic coast guard vessel Nr 618, who is stationed on Lesvos, stopped the boat inside Greek wathers, destroyed the engine and left the people drifting forContinue reading “Phusback May 29th.”

The Mayor’s of Mytilini, Chios and East Samos issued a joint statement expressing their gratitude towards the coast guard, who bravely is defending the maritime borders, with weapons, against defenseless refugees, unarmed children, women and men, seeking refuge. Is this something people should be proud of, and who in their right mind would applaud theseContinue reading “Applaudin Pushbacks!”

There has been a substantial increase in numbers of refugees leaving for the Greek islands in August this year. Compared to last year’s 5,483 departures in August only, there’s been an increase of 299% with the same month this year’s total of 21,870 hopeful refugees who set out from Turkey on their dangerous journeys crossingContinue reading “Important news nowhere to be found in media. Why?”

Today approximately 1500 people were transported from Lesvos to the mainland in a desperate attempt to take some pressure off the overcrowded island. About 1000 people will be put in 200 tents in New Kavala – a camp where tensions are so high that organizations themselves have had to pull out of the camp asContinue reading “1500 people transferred from Lesvos..”

“Simplifying The Day – Norway Will Not Accept Boat Migrants” is now being used as a slogan for the Norwegian right-wing party Fremskrittspartiet (The Progress Party). The Norwegian right-wing Minister for The Elderly And Public Health, Sylvi Listhaug is exploiting innocent refugees of the crisis in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas to promote the ProgressContinue reading ““Simplifying The Day – Norway Will Not Accept Boat Migrants””

Yesterday 13 boats arrived at the same time, in the outskirts of Skala Sikamineas, Lesvos north, 547 people. Some are trying to give an impression that it’s only young men traveling, nothing is further from the truth. 246 children arrived yesterday, 246! That really puts things in perspective. Where I come from that’s a aContinue reading “246 Children”