Syrian Jailed for 52 Years After Trial for Piloting Illegal Migrant Boat, Causing Shipwreck.
A Syrian man has received a lengthy sentence after being tried for entering Greece illegally, facilitating the illegal entry of other migrants, and provoking a shipwreck.
Accused of endangering the lives of fellow migrants as well as the lives of Greek officials, the Syrian named only as ‘KS’ was cleared of the shipwreck charges but convicted of the illegal entry and people-smuggling charges, with the authorities having chared him with piloting a boat packed with as many as 40 illegal aliens. A court in Mytiline, Lesbos handed him a 52-year sentence.
KS embarked on his voyage in March 2020, according to the left-wing Independent — around the time the Islamist president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “opened the gates” for migrants living in his country to flood into the European Union via the Turkish border with Greece, in order to pressure the bloc, with some success, to give in to various demands for money and so on. Breitbart.
