During the pursuit the speedboat operator made repeated attempts to ram the Coast Guard patrol boat, endangering its passengers as well as the patrol boat’s crew
A Coast Guard patrol boat stopped a speedboat carrying 25 foreigners yesterday in Kos after a chase.
According to the Coast Guard early yesterday morning, a Coast Guard patrol boat, on a scheduled patrol, detected a high-speed inflatable boat moving without navigation lights at high speed, within Greek territorial waters in the direction of Kos.
The Coast Guard patrol vessel used sound and light signals, which the operator of the upper vessel, ignored by carrying out dangerous maneuvers. A pursuit ensued during which the speedboat operator made repeated attempts to ram the Coast Guard patrol boat, endangering its passengers as well as the crew of the patrol boat. Subsequently the speedboat operator collided head-on with the patrol boatresulting in the total rupture of its left chamber as well as part of the forward right air chamber of the speedboat. The speedboat operator did not comply and continued sailing with immediate risk of capsizing and causing a wreck due to loss of stability.
The crew of the patrol boat finally stopped the speedboat and transferred the twenty-five (25) foreignersthe foreign operator as well as his alleged assistant, who were transferred to the port of Kos, while one of them was transferred to the Kos General Hospital-Kos Health Center.
The relevant vessel was seized by the Kos Port Authority, which is conducting the preliminary investigation.
Source: Skai
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