September 13, 2023 After a man drowned on September 5, 2023 while attempting to board a ferry in the Greek port of Piraeus, a post was shared more than a hundred times on Facebook claiming that days later a member of the coast guard threw himself into the sea to save a little girl from […]
Coast guard rescued drowning girl from Greece’s Piraeus port in 2022, not 2023 Read More »
Soon after the first fires broke out on August 19 around the city of Alexandroupoli — near a well-trodden route for migrants entering Europe from Turkey — pictures and videos were posted on social media claiming to show makeshift arson devices created by migrants crossing the border.
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