The European Commission asked Greece to begin an investigation into a New York Times report based on footage showing the country’s Coast Guard abandoning migrants in the Aegean Sea last month, a top official said on Monday, the New York Times reported.
In a statement on Twitter released the day after Greek elections, the EU home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, said her officials had written to Athens with a formal request “that this incident be fully and independently investigated,” the Guardian reported.
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