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Postby supporttheunderdog » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:49 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3225321/Pirate-rogue-element-Greek-coastguard-ROBBING-migrants-gunpoint-puncturing-dinghies-Mediterranean.html

EXCLUSIVE: Migrants claim rogue Greek coastguard are ROBBING them at gunpoint and puncturing their dinghies in the Mediterranean
Migrants claim that they have have been robbed of their life possessions while on the perilous crossing to Greece by pirates
They claim that the masked, armed men may be a rogue element of the Greek coastguard and claim their descriptions fit
The UNHCR, Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children are told MailOnline they are looking into the claims
Greek coastguard deny the claim, adding pirates are 'posing as authorities'... but admitted last month that one was a government employee
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Postby Get Real! » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:14 pm

One of them claims to have been robbed of $70,000! :?

I guess from that moment on he became a real refugee...
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Postby GreekIslandGirl » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:45 pm

Get Real! wrote:One of them claims to have been robbed of $70,000! :?

I guess from that moment on he became a real refugee...


Is that AMERICAN dollars? Wow! Wonder what he did to earn those ...
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Postby Lordo » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:53 pm

GreekIslandGirl wrote:
Get Real! wrote:One of them claims to have been robbed of $70,000! :?

I guess from that moment on he became a real refugee...


Is that AMERICAN dollars? Wow! Wonder what he did to earn those ...

so the fact that this refugee is robbed by a greak coastguard does not bother you but where did he get this money from does. you people are disgusting. just because somebody is a refugee does it mean that they have to be poor and penniless. what kind of twisted minds do you people have.
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby B25 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:56 pm

Lordo wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:
Get Real! wrote:One of them claims to have been robbed of $70,000! :?

I guess from that moment on he became a real refugee...


Is that AMERICAN dollars? Wow! Wonder what he did to earn those ...

so the fact that this refugee is robbed by a greak coastguard does not bother you but where did he get this money from does. you people are disgusting. just because somebody is a refugee does it mean that they have to be poor and penniless. what kind of twisted minds do you people have.


So you have judge the Greek coast guards with no evidence other than they are Greek. Hade Fuck Off you asshole. typical Turkish shit. Get out of Cyprus.
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby Paphitis » Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:57 pm

The Greek Coast Guard robbed no one.

Accusations like this are common particularly when the vessels are intercepted and boarded by an armed boarding party. It happens all the time.

The Greek Coast Guard would have conducted its duties professionally.

This "news" story does not sit right with me. Very far fetched and that's putting it nicely.
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:13 pm

Lordo wrote:
GreekIslandGirl wrote:
Get Real! wrote:One of them claims to have been robbed of $70,000! :?

I guess from that moment on he became a real refugee...


Is that AMERICAN dollars? Wow! Wonder what he did to earn those ...

so the fact that this refugee is robbed by a greak coastguard does not bother you but where did he get this money from does. you people are disgusting. just because somebody is a refugee does it mean that they have to be poor and penniless. what kind of twisted minds do you people have.


It would bother me if it was a Greek coastguard at fault - because, such things are not in the nature of Greek coastguards! And since the article is veering all over the place trying to spread hatred without any actual facts, I'm not at all worried.

With some 100,000 so-called refugees all over the place, many now been identified as Turks, Pakistanis etc and only a few hundred coastguards trying to cope, I am rather more inclined to believe at the hints in the article that it is most likely opportunist so-called refugees who are out to rob the legitimate refugees.
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby Get Real! » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:18 pm

Lordo wrote:so the fact that this refugee is robbed by a greak coastguard does not bother you but where did he get this money from does. you people are disgusting. just because somebody is a refugee does it mean that they have to be poor and penniless. what kind of twisted minds do you people have.

I’m surprised you show so much sensitivity for refugees… yet never read anything about the 180,000 odd refugees from your own country! :?

And btw, in a war zone there are no banks open so it's very unlikely that a genuine refugee has that much cash on them. Some of us know what being a refugee is all about from personal experience...
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby Paphitis » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:25 pm

Get Real! wrote:
Lordo wrote:so the fact that this refugee is robbed by a greak coastguard does not bother you but where did he get this money from does. you people are disgusting. just because somebody is a refugee does it mean that they have to be poor and penniless. what kind of twisted minds do you people have.

I’m surprised you show so much sensitivity for refugees… yet never read anything about the 180,000 odd refugees from your own country! :?

And btw, in a war zone there are no banks open so it's very unlikely that a genuine refugee has that much cash on them. Some of us know what being a refugee is all about from personal experience...


I don't know about that.

A refugee is simply a displaced person who cannot return back to the area they fled from because of safety, war or environment.

It does not have anything to do with how much money they have.

There were some pretty wealthy GC refugees as well who owned luxury hotels in Famagusta and Kyrenia and they might have been loaded but according to the UNHCR, they are still refugees.

The above refugees came from Turkey so he could have got the money from there.

But I don't believe he had that much money either. I believe he might be lying.
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Re: headline in the alleged news paper - the daily mail

Postby supporttheunderdog » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:25 pm

Here by the way is a picture of the ship that the "Refugees" claim was the base of the attackers. We only have their word that they were attacked and that this was the ship the attackers came from.
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