EVROS: Turks opened fire on immigrants - One dead

One of the Turkish fires immigrant fell dead, while another five managed to reach the Greek side.

The police of the border guard department at Soufflé detected on Saturday night using special thermal cameras, located on the opposite side of the river a Turkish patrol.

Lately, such incidents have been recorded more and more often. In fact, movements of Turkish guards have been recorded, not only not to prevent the transport of illegal immigrants but to leave the traffickers undisturbed to fill their boats, while relevant video footage has published in the past and CNN Greece.

The Greek border guards They remained in their positions and found that despite the presence of the Turks, a boat with irregular immigrants started moving towards the Greek side. With special sound signals and lenses border guards tried to prevent illegal entry.

Then the Turkish patrol started firing, but without the Greek police being able to locate the direction in which the shots were fired during the night. Fortunately, the Greek border guards managed to take their self-defense measures and there was no injury, while they also fired warning shots in the air, while shots were still heard from the other side.

The boat with the irregularities emigrateIt reached the Greek side and the police found that there was one inside dead. The autopsy that was performed showed a gunshot wound to the back of the head and in fact from a close distance and with a weapon that the Greek border guards do not have in their weapons.

The illegal immigrants were transferred to Alexandroupolis and the Greek authorities are trying to find out more information about their circuit traffickers.