To the investigator, with serious charges of forming a criminal organization, causing a shipwreck by negligence and endangering life, are being led today the nine Egyptians alleged to be the traffickers in the deadly shipwreck with 78 dead and hundreds of missing migrants in international waters off Pylos.

It is noted that the Pakistani authorities also made arrests.

They arrested 10 people involved in the slave-trafficking ring, as it is estimated that over 200, perhaps 300 people from Pakistan were on board.

The arrested are expected to cross the threshold of the Kalamata Courthouse at 11:00 to appear before the interrogator.

Yesterday Sunday late in the afternoon the long deposits given by the 9 survivors who came from Malacca.

It’s about key witnesses and had been asked to give additional testimony and deny that they are related to illegal immigration. The arrested also deny their involvement in the case that claimed the lives of at least 78 people. Therefore, it is not excluded today, some defense attorneys to request a new deadline from the investigator as they have not received knowledge of the entire case file, then the new depositions.

Testimonies and testimonies of shock about the actions of traffickers

The testimonies and statements about the brutality of the traffickers and the inhumane conditions prevailing on the boat are shocking. Banging, yelling, cursing, humiliation. In the five days of travel from Libya and until they meet death on the doorstep of Europe, the migrants in the sapiocarove experienced hell from their traffickers – “torturers”. “They gave us food only if we gave them money. They cursed and beat us” they say and mention that the children and women were in the holds. The traffickers did not hesitate to pile people everywhere inside the fishing boat, even in the refrigerators.

Victims of the tragedy and the relatives of the people who perished. Relatives of the missing continue to arrive at the central Kalamata Port Authority from every corner of Europe, with photographs in hand, asking in desperation about the fate of their own people, reading in vain the lists of the rescued.

They remained at the Kalamata hospital until yesterday Sunday 18 people, hospitalized. In the structure of Malacasa, where the rest of the total 104 rescued have been transferred, friends and family members flock daily to give them courage, but also desperate relatives of the missing, in a last ditch effort to find any information about their loved ones.

The investigations to locate survivors will continue todayfor the sixth day, with the participation of a navy frigate, three parasailing vessels, and a helicopter, but they are slowly coming to an end, as it is now considered unlikely that anyone got out alive from the floating coffin that carried the migrants.