On April 29th Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri resigned as an outcome of the accusations of the Agency of facilitating illegal pushbacks in the Mediterranean.
Over the last two years Frontex has consistently claimed that all its operations in the Aegean comply with the EU law and that it consisted of preventing boats from crossing international borders and then asking the Turkish coast guards to rescue passengers and bring them back to Turkey. Yet over the time it became clear that in many cases Frontex wasn’t doing just that but rather was helping to intercept dinghies within Greek waters and then looking the other way as coast gourds pushed those dinghies back into Turkish waters violating the prohibition on non-refoulement and the prohibition on collective exposure.
In the newest episode of Fractured Joel Hernandez describes which of Frontex actions were just morally wrong and which openly against the law and how they lead to Mr Leggeri’s resignation.
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