Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck

Seventeen coastguards have been charged by a Greek naval court over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.

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Up to 650 people were feared to have drowned when the overcrowded Adriana fishing vessel sank near Pylos, off the Greek coast, in the early hours of 14 June 2023.

Survivors later told the BBC that Greek coastguards had caused their boat to capsize in a botched attempt to tow it and then silenced witnesses.

"It has taken us two years just for these charges to come, even though so many people witnessed what happened," one of the survivors said on Monday.

The Greek authorities have always denied the claims against them.