Despite the allegations, the Greek political and natural leadership of the security corps expresses its ignorance about the push-backs. Instead of ordering a serious and to the end investigation about the allegations, the Ministry of Citizen Protection, via the Minister Nikos Dendias, informs the Parliament that no incidents of push-backs have been reported neither by the Greek police nor by Frontex (!), of those accused of committing such illegal operations.
Moreover, it bypasses the allegations for the use of violence, that amounts to torture talking about a technological spectacle kind of… “sound and light”. In order to stop the entrance of migrants, he says, the authorities “basically use technological equipment that transmits sound and light signals that inform the authorities of the neighboring country in order to arrest the migrants before entering into our country.
