Ruthless traffickers showed their cruel face once again in the Aegean Sea, as on Sunday they transported migrants in an inflatable boat, including people with disabilities, such as a blind girl and another person with mobility problems, under bad weather conditions, with winds of 6-7 Beaufort, in a sea area northeast of Rhodes.
In a search and rescue operation coordinated by the Single Coordination Centre for Search & Rescue (E.K.S.E.D.), the Coast Guard officers recovered 21 people, three of whom were in great physical exhaustion and transported them to Rhodes. The operation, which involved an open sea float and a Coast Guard patrol boat, has been completed without loss of life.
According to what Coast Guard officers told the Greek protothema.gr "we are not facing the migrants, but were, are and will be the traffickers and the criminal organizations hiding behind them."
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