Greece migrant boat disaster relatives demand answers, one year on


FILE PHOTO: Egyptian survivor Mahmoud Shalabi, 22, one of the 104 survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck off southwestern Greece, rests in a shelter following a rescue operation, in Kalamata, Greece, June 14, 2023. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) - Demonstrators were due to rally in Athens on Friday to mark the anniversary of a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece and demand answers about the causes of the disaster and the fate of relatives.

Up to 700 migrants from Pakistan, Syria and Egypt were crammed in Libya into a fishing trawler bound for Italy. It capsized off southwestern Greece on June 14, 2023, even though the Greek coast guard had been monitoring it for hours.

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