On Monday 22 May, the European Commission called on the Greek authorities to launch an independent investigation into videos revealed by the New York Times that showed, according to the newspaper, Greek coastguards turning back a group of migrants to Turkey, including children, by making them get out of a van and onto a makeshift ship.
The videos, dating from April and revealed on 19 May, before the country’s parliamentary elections, “cannot be verified” by the Commission, the...