Subject:                             FW: 11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean Importance:                          High From: Text Removed (Personal Data) Sent: 25 April, 2020 14:19 To: < Text Removed (Reporting Tools) >; < Text Removed (Reporting Tools) >; < Text Removed (Reporting Tools) > Cc: < Text Removed (Reporting Tools) > Subject: RE: 11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean Importance: High Dear colleagues In order to properly prepare a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the event described in SIR (11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean) - please provide me with the information, clarification and/or confirmation concerning the below stated queries/subjects: 1.    Was the Greek Patrol Boat involved in the incident co-financed by Frontex (FX asset)? 2.    What was the role of ICC in the incident and the communication during it? 3.    Was the FX flight part of agreed JO’s patrols or FSC own pre-frontier? 4.    Who was the HCG expert giving instructions, is he ICC staff or FSC’s own contacts? 5.    Were the HCG vessels on scene operational assets of the JO? 6.    Who led and gave the orders to embark the migrants on board and put them back to TR TTW? 7.    Was FCO/OM aware of the situation? 8.    Please provide me with a copy of correspondence already sent to the GR authorities 9.    Provide any additional information regarding possible violation of Fundamental Rights / Code of Conducts 10.   Any other relevant information related to the incident Regards Text Removed (Personal Data) Head of Field Deployment Unit Operational Response Division Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Text Removed (Reporting Tools) 1

From: Text Removed (Personal Data) Sent: Friday 24 April 2020 13:33 To: < Text Removed (Reporting Tools)>; < Text Removed (Reporting Tools) > Subject: FW: 11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean Importance: High Dear Text Removed (Personal Data) I need full intel reg. this incident – A.S.A.P. Regards Text Removed (Personal Data) Head of Field Deployment Unit Operational Response Division Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Text Removed (Reporting Tools) From: Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Sent: Thursday 23 April 2020 13:49 To: Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Subject: 11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean Dear colleagues, Please find herewith the corrected text of this SIR. On behalf of DSAM, apologies for the confusion. 11095/2020: FORMAL SIR – Frontex Surveillance Aircrafts Sighting in Eastern Aegean Find below the chronological order (Zulu time) of events which occurred on 18-19/04/2020, in which the Frontex Surveillance Aircraft intervened while performing a surveillance flight between the Greek and Turkish maritime border near the island of Lesvos: 18.04.2020      At 22:58 HCG Sea Border Expert, based in ICC Piraeus informed FSC Team Leader about an incident north of Lesvos (39° 26’ 45’’N – 026° 26’ 21’’E) asking to reach the point.      At 23:05 Frontex Surveillance Aircraft (FSA) spots a rubber boat with approx. 20-30 POB, stopped, and one Greek Patrol vessel is very close. 2

    At 23:22 FSC Team Leader sends the Early Warning report to the competent Greek Authorities (incident inside Greek TW - Two HCG patrol boats and one TCG are in the vicinity of the target).     At 23:38 HCG Sea Border Expert cleared Frontex Surveillance Aircraft to resume normal patrolling. 19.04.2020     At 00:03 Frontex Surveillance Aircraft observes and sends to FSC the picture of the Greek patrol boat towing an empty rubber boat. The migrants are on board the patrol boat.     At 00:06 HCG Sea Border Expert asks Frontex Surveillance Aircraft to fly south, contrary to flight schedule to fly south-east.     At 02:37 the migrants are transferred on board the rubber boat previously towed from the patrol boat, the second patrol boat, a Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boat (RHIB), awaits in the vicinity.     At 02:43 Frontex Surveillance Aircraft affirms that nearby the rubber boat with migrants on board there are no TCG vessels, only Greek HCG.     At 02:46 Frontex Surveillance Aircraft takes a picture of a Greek patrol vessel towing the rubber boat with migrants on board towards TUR Territorial Waters with course 051°. HCG Sea Border Expert requests to fly north.     At 02:57 HCG Sea Border Experts sends instructions to fly northbound for the remaining 30 min of flight, when the Team Leader asks if there is any specific reason to fly north the reply is “negative”.     At 03:21 Frontex Surveillance Aircraft communicates that the rubber boat has no engine and it is adrift at 39°16’N 026°35’E. Greek assets are departing the area leaving the rubber boat adrift.     At 04:48 Team Leader proposes to HCG Sea Border Expert to divert TASTY, aerial asset already airborne, to check the rubber boat. HCG Sea Border Expert replies: “Negative. Tasty will continue its normal route”.     Once Frontex Surveillance Aircraft had landed, FSC Team Leader offers a second flight to Greek authorities to collaborate with the mentioned SAR being rejected the aid on the grounds that the Turkish Coast Guard had assumed the coordination of the incident.     At 15:55 Greek Authorities inform that according to information received, that same morning the rubber boat landed safely on the Turkish shores under the monitoring of a Turkish Coast Guard vessel. FSC proposes HoU.FDU to act as the Serious Incident Coordinator for this case. Related articles have been published on the media (Link)” Kind regards, Senior Duty Officer 24/7 service Monitoring Hub – Frontex Situation Centre Situational Awareness and Monitoring Division Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Text Removed (Reporting Tools) 3