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Submitted to the European Ombudsman on 24 July 2023—together with Legal Centre Lesvos, Mobile Info Team, HIAS and Equal Rights Beyond Borders—the complaint challenges the legality of the European Commission’s material and other forms of support to Greece’s border enforcement operations and infrastructure of illegal expulsions (‘pushbacks’) at Greece’s Evros river and Aegean sea borders. Based on investigations by Lena Karamanidou (PhD), Border Violence Monitoring Network, Lighthouse Reports, and Forensic Architecture, and expert legal opinion, the complaint demonstrates and articulates the Commission’s failure to respond to Greece’s misuse and mismanagement of EU funds used in support of systemic breaches of EU and international law.

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Valentina Azarova
Noemi Magugliani
Andreina De Leo (advisor)

Partners

Legal Centre Lesvos
Mobile Info Team
HIAS
Equal Rights Beyond Borders

Investigative partners

Lena Karamanidou (PhD)
Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN)
Lighthouse Reports
Forensic Architecture

Contributors

We Are Solomon
Laura Salzano

Case documents

Notice letter to Commission (sent 20 December 2022)

Summary of complaint (forthcoming)

Statement (with partners)

Related submissions

* We made several submissions to Parliamentary groups and committees throughout this process that are not public. Information that has become available through these efforts has also contributed to the initiation and supported other migration policy review processes at the EU and Member State levels.






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March 2025