Subject:                            Redacted: Availability for a second sortie on 19.04.2020 - METIS From: ΥΟΘΕ IMSB [mailto:imsb@hcg.gr] Sent: 19 April 2020 08:39 To: Text Removed (Reporting Tools) Cc: Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools);, FRONTEX Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); "Λ" <samo@hcg.gr>; kos <kos@hcg.gr>; Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Personal Data); Text Removed (Personal Data; Text Removed (Personal Data; Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Personal Data; Text Removed (Personal Data ; Text Removed (Personal Data ; Text Removed (Personal Data ; Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Personal Data) Subject: Re: Availability for a second sortie on 19.04.2020 - METIS Dear colleagues, Please be informed that turkish Coast Guast Guard assumed coordination of the incident, therefore there is no need for a second flight. Thank you very much for your availability to support, Best regards, IMSB From: Text Removed (Reporting Tools) To: "ΥΟΘΕ IMSB" <imsb@hcg.gr> Cc: Text Removed (Reporting Tools); Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools ), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools ), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed (Reporting Tools), "Λ" <samo@hcg.gr>, "kos" <kos@hcg.gr>, Text Removed (Reporting Tools), Text Removed 1

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At 22:58 HCG informed FSC Team Leader about an incident north of Lesvos. At 23:05 FSA spots a rubber boat with approx. 20-30 POB, stopped, and a Greek Patrol vessel very close. At 23:22 FSC Team Leader sends the Early Warning report to the competent Greek Authorities (incident inside Greek TW - 2 HCG patrol boats and 1 TCG are in the vicinity of the target). At 00:03 FSA 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 asks FSA to fly south, contrary to flight schedule to fly south-east. At 00:23 METIS passed WP-B and continued towards WP-C. At 0027, METIS was directed to reverse track for de-confliction. At 00:34 METIS passed WP-B and continued towards WP-A. At 01:04 METIS turned at WP-A to reverse track. At 0135, METIS passed WP-B towards WP-C. At 01:42 METIS was directed to reverse track for de-confliction and continued towards WP-B. At 01:47 METIS passed WP-B and continued towards WP-A. At 0221, METIS turned at WP-A. At 02:40 METIS imaged HCG patrol vessel reloading the migrants onto the rubber boat IVO 39°15’N 026°32’E. A nearby RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) then took the rubber boat on tow hdg 051° at 2.5kts towards Turkish Territorial Waters. At 02:43 FSA affirms that nearby the rubber boat with migrants on board there are no TCG vessels, only Greek HCG. At 02:46 FSA takes a picture of a Greek patrol vessel towing the rubber boat with migrants on board towards TUR Territorial Waters. HCG requests to fly north. At 02:57 HCG 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 03:15 METIS declared BINGO (fuel limitation time) and began to RTB (Return to Base). Its final image showed the migrant boat adrift IVO 39°16’N 026°35’E. At 03:23 FSA communicates that the rubber boat has no engine and it is adrift. Greek assets are departing the area leaving the rubber boat adrift. 03:30 METIS landed at LGMT (Text removed - Operational Area of Joint Operation airport). At 04:48 Team Leader proposes to divert TASTY, aerial asset already airborne, to check the rubber boat. HCG replies: “Negative. Tasty will continue its normal route”. At 05:53 Once Frontex 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. 09:38 Ho.CCO informed the Operational Manager of JO Poseidon about the sighting and requested to collect the additional information from the ICC. 10:00 Frontex Coordinating Officer (FCO) contacted the ICC coordinator by the phone: informed about the incident and requested for the position of the HCG on the incident. ICC coordinator initially did not provide any reply, instead requested a written report with all the facts to be considered internally by the HCG 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 TCG vessel.