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EU report: Frontex covered up migrant pushbacks from Greece

FILE - Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal patrol as the sun rises near the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Dec. 8, 2015. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' "fundamental rights." (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File) FILE - Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal rescue 56 people, who were lost in an open sea as they try to approach on a dinghy the Greek island of Lesbos, on Dec. 8, 2015. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' "fundamental rights." (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File) FILE - Migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Feb. 28, 2020. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' "fundamental rights." (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File) FILE - An officer from the European Union's border protection agency, Frontex, leads a migrant as they get in a ferry in the port of Mytilini, Lesbos island , Greece, on April 8, 2016. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' “fundamental rights.” (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
EU report: Frontex covered up migrant pushbacks from Greece