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Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy (www.bbc.com)
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Survivors of the Greece boat disaster say an attempt by the Greek coastguard to tow the boat made it sink.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"The Greek authorities have previously denied this, claiming that when they tried to tie a rope to the boat to come aboard and assess the situation, people on board tried to remove it, saying they wanted to travel on to Italy. "

They probably tried to remove it because towing an old ship full of hundreds of people is really dangerous.
This is messed up and should never have happened.