(AFP) Greece’s government came under pressure over its migration policies Friday after video footage emerged allegedly showing Greek coastguards expelling migrants by setting them adrift in the Aegean Sea.
The footage, published by the New York Times, has sparked calls by the UN high commissioner for human rights for an independent probe.
It also comes two days before a general election in which conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is facing a challenge from leftist former premier Alexis Tsipras.
A tough stance against immigration is a key plank of Mitsotakis’s election platform. Earlier in the campaign, the prime minister travelled to the land border with Turkey where he vowed to extend a five-metre-high steel fence to contain the inward migration flow.
