Watch the Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 4th of February 2024
Case name: 2024_02_03-Eastern Med - 052
Situation: 19 (including 1 old woman, one pregnant woman and several children) stranded on Lesvos before being found by the Greek police and brought to a camp and some of them to a hospital by the Greek police
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Eastern Med

Summary of the Case:
In the evening of the 3rd of February, the Alarm Phone was alerted by a worried relative to a group of 19 people, including one old woman, one pregnant woman and several children (among whom some were injured and sick), who landed on the island of Lesvos in Greece. They had split up in two groups. As some of them couldn’t walk further, they had stayed on the beach while the others had gone looking for help. The people on the beach were in urgent need of medical assistance. After being in contact with the people on the move, we sent an alert email to inform Greek authorities, Frontex and NGOs on the island about the group’s situation and location, informing them that the people needed urgent medical attention and wanted to apply for asylum in Greece. Early morning the next day we called the Greek police and asked if they had found the two groups as we couldn’t reach none of them since the night before.
A few hours later, we were informed that both groups had been found by the police who had taken the injured to an hospital and the others to a camp where, hopefully, they could exercise their rights and apply for asylum.