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no new findings – just my small compilation of links with info on #Frontex

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15 Feb 2021
Legal Centre Lesvos and Front-Lex


The Legal Centre Lesvos and Front-Lex call upon FRONTEX to immediately suspend or terminate its activities in the Aegean Sea region / Legal Center Lesvos et Front-Lex demandent à FRONTEX de suspendre ou de mettre fin immédiatement à ses activités dans la mer Égée.

This morning, Legal Centre Lesvos and Front-Lex sent a formal request to suspend or terminate Frontex operations in the Aegean Sea to Fabrice Leggeri, the Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), pursuant to Article 265 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. 


https://legalcentrelesvos.org/2021/02/15/the-legal-centre-lesvos-and-front-lex-call-upon-frontex-to-immediately-suspend-or-terminate-its-activities-in-the-aegean-sea-region/

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15 Feb 2021 – der Spiegel:

Pushback-Skandal Rechtsanwälte wollen Frontex-Chef Leggeri vor Gericht bringen

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/frontex-skandal-rechtsanwaelte-wollen-leggeri-vor-europaeischen-gerichtshof-bringen-a-b82ae08e-449e-4366-862a-9d8300d97e81

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Are you Syrious Special – Part 1 – (2004–2016) – 6 Dec 2020
Frontex and human rights — How did we arrive here? PART 1 (2004–2016)

https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-special-frontex-and-human-rights-how-did-we-arrive-here-part-1-2004-2016-17cffb340c07

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Are you Syrious Special – Part 2 – (2017 – 2019) – 20 Dec 2020
Frontex and Human Rights — How did we arrive here? PART 2 (2017–2019)
https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-special-frontex-and-human-rights-how-did-we-arrive-here-part-2-2017-2019-83dbb24acb7f

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Are you Syrious Special – Part 3 – (2020) – 26 Dec 2020
Frontex and Human Rights — How did we arrive here? Part 3 (2020)
https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-special-frontex-and-human-rights-how-did-we-arrive-here-part-3-2020-present-706438d8e29


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Are you Syrious Special – Part 4 – (2021) – 7 Feb 2021
Frontex and Human Rights — How did we arrive here? Part 4 (2021 So Far)
https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-special-frontex-and-human-rights-how-did-we-arrive-here-part-4-2021-january-update-9e55d65cc950

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11 Feb 2021 – die Zeit
Frontex: Agentur außer Kontrolle

Vertuschte Menschenrechtsverletzungen, heimliche Treffen mit der Rüstungsindustrie: Über Frontex werden immer mehr Vorwürfe bekannt. Wer kontrolliert die Kontrolleure? Von Bartholomäus von Laffert, Ann Esswein und Vera Deleja-Hotko
https://www.zeit.de/politik/2021-02/frontex-eu-grenzschutzagentur-kontrolle-menschenechte-ruestungsindustrie/komplettansicht?

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06 Feb 2021

Jan Böhmermann tweets:

“FRONTEX does not meet with lobbyists.”
Yes, it does (without telling anybody).
ZDF-Magazin s FRONTEX-Files-Scoup
NOW AVAIAVLE WITH 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 SUBTITLES:
https://youtu.be/2uk0w8SvUMw
More: http://frontexfiles.eu
#zdfmagazin

https://twitter.com/janboehm/status/1358052699749629954

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FRONTEX FILES

Vera Deleja-Hotko, Ann Esswein, Luisa Izuzquiza, Bartholomäus von Laffert, Daniela Sala and Phevos Simeonidis (Disinfaux Collective) for ZDF Magazin Royale
05 Feb 2020
https://frontexfiles.eu/en.html

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) :
Lobbying Fortress Europe

The making of a border-industrial complex

https://corporateeurope.org/en/lobbying-fortress-europe

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der Spiegel – 5 Feb 2021

Scandals Plunge Europe’s Border Agency into Turmoil

Accusations of workplace harassment, mismanagement and financial irregularities have led to chaos at Europe’s border agency. The allegations weigh heavily on Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/missteps-and-mismanagement-at-frontex-scandals-plunge-europe-s-border-agency-into-turmoil-a-d11ae404-5fd4-41a7-b127-eca47a00753f

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der Spiegel – 23 Oct 2020


EU Border Agency Frontex Complicit in Greek Refugee Pushback Campaign

Greek border guards have been forcing large numbers of refugees back to sea in pushback operations that violate international law. DER SPIEGEL and its reporting partners have learned that the European Union is also complicit in the highly controversial practice.

By Giorgos Christides, Emmanuel Freudenthal, Steffen Lüdke und Maximilian Popp

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-border-agency-frontex-complicit-in-greek-refugee-pushback-campaign-a-4b6cba29-35a3-4d8c-a49f-a12daad450d7

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17 June 2020

Greece carries out collective expulsion of over 900 asylum seekers under the complicit silence of the European Union

Greece carries out collective expulsion of over 900 asylum seekers under the complicit silence of the European Union

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04 Aug 2019 – the guardian


Once migrants on Mediterranean were saved by naval patrols. Now they have to watch as drones fly over


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/drones-replace-patrol-ships-mediterranean-fears-more-migrant-deaths-eu

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14 June 2019

Interview:

Meet the lawyer taking the EU migration policy to the ICC

https://euobserver.com/news/145162


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Communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Pursuant to the Article 15 of the Rome Statute EU Migration Policies


https://www.statewatch.org/media/documents/news/2019/jun/eu-icc-case-EU-Migration-Policies.pdf

by Omer Shatz and Dr. Juan Branco – 3 June 2019 – ICC


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Border Violence Monitoring goes European Parliament

https://www.borderviolence.eu/border-violence-monitoring-goes-european-parliament/

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2016 –

The EU’s Shifting Practices of (Non-) Assistance and Bordering in a Time of Crisis

by CHARLES HELLER + LORENZO PEZZANI
https://www.borderline-europe.de/sites/default/files/background/nearfuturesonline_org_ebbing_and_flowing_the_eus_shifting_pr.pdf

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10 June 2016

New FRONTEX agency: satellite reconnaissance and drones over the Mediterranean

by Matthias Monroy
https://digit.site36.net/2016/06/10/new-frontex-agency-satellite-reconnaissance-and-drones-over-the-mediterranean/

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Matthias Monroy’s archive – a source of info
https://digit.site36.net/archive/

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incident on 28 October 2015 – investigation published 19 Feb 2020


Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea


https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/shipwreck-at-the-threshold-of-europe

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Date of Incident 27.03.2011 – 10.04.2011– investigation published 11 April 2012


The Left-to-Die Boat

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-left-to-die-boat

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der Spiegel – Thema Frontex: https://www.spiegel.de/thema/frontex/