'I was close to death': Syrian man tells how Greek officials pushed refugees back out to sea

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : After landing on the Greek island of Samos soon after dawn on 28 April 2020, he and his fellow passengers had trudged up the steep coastal path, searching for Greek police, in order to claim asylum.
47% :Frontex has become the Europe's answer to border control, after the arrival of 1.26 million asylum seekers in 2015, an event that plunged the EU into crisis.
45% : Analysts say the agency's challenges are bigger than one person, as European leaders vie to be tough on border control.
44% : She sees an increasing tendency for governments to claim "an inherent contradiction" between protecting their territorial integrity and the right to asylum, enshrined in the Geneva conventions, "whereas for the last 70 years we have dealt with this".
35% : Omer Shatz, legal director at Front-Lex, who is representing Hamoudi pro bono, is seeking damages of €500,000 for his client over numerous alleged violations, including the right to life and the right to claim asylum.

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