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Around 650 people drowned after the Adriana trawler capsized in the early morning hours of 14 June, some 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos, Greece. (Photo: Hellenic Coast Guard)

Pylos shipwreck lawyers hoping case will be dismissed

A Greek court will soon hear testimonies of nine Egyptians facing serious charges over last year's Pylos shipwreck in the Mediterranean, where some 650 people drowned in one of the worst single maritime disasters in recent years.

"They have been waiting all this time for this moment," Dimitris Choulis, a lawyer from the Samos-based Human Rights Legal Project, ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Around 650 people drowned after the Adriana trawler capsized in the early morning hours of 14 June, some 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos, Greece. (Photo: Hellenic Coast Guard)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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