Survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck in southern Greece three months ago are suing authorities for failing to intervene to rescue passengers before their vessel capsized in international waters, their lawyers said Thursday.
Hundreds of migrants are believed to have been trapped and killed when a modified fishing trawler sank south of Greece in mid-June.
The rest, including women and children, sank in one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean. With depths of around 4,000 metres in that area, a recovery of the vessel and its victims is all but impossible. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a group of 40 survivors against "all parties responsible" at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, on Wednesday.
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