Alleged Violations of the Convention: Art.2, Art. 3, Art. 5 ECHR Essential Aspects of the case: pushback with the use of firearms by the Greek authorities before the pullback by the Turkish authorities asylum seekers were at the aforementioned location, indicated to the Greek authorities and the ECtHR, the Greek authorities did not locate or rescue the asylum seekers or grant them access to international protection. For all of these cases65 ECtHR ordered the Greek government not to remove the asylum seekers from Greece until further notice and to provide them with food, water and adequate medical care as needed until further notice. Image 8: GPS location of asylum seekers shared with GCR via WhatsApp on 10 May: 41°19’33.1”N 26°35’41.4”E 62 Syrians including 18 children stranded helpless on the islet: In the early hours of 10 May 2022, GCR was informed that 62 Syrian asylum seekers64 (among them 18 children), entered Greece again and were stranded on an islet in Evros river (see graphic). The asylum seekers told GCR that they did not have food, water or supplies to survive. GCR informed the Greek authorities about the presence of 62 people on the islet and asked them to comply with the previous, extended and new ECtHR interim measures decisions, to locate and rescue all of them and to provide them water, food and access to the asylum procedure. However, despite the fact that from 10 May until 14 May, the Detected but not rescued by the Greek authorities: On 16 May, and while GCR had lost contact with the group, one of the asylum seekers66 informed GCR that most of the refugees of the group had been in Turkey since 14 May. According to the description of the facts by the aforementioned asylum seeker: On 12 May, at approximately 13:00, Greek vehicles appeared but left without making contact with the asylum seekers. Subsequently, they appeared again at 16:00 and then at 20:00. The next day, Greek vehicles appeared once more at 8:30 and then at 11:00. The Greek vehicles re-appeared 2 or 3 more times during the day. Meanwhile, people were urgently asking the persons in the vehicles for help, they were extremely scared, distressed, thirsty and hungry. Some of the children needed urgent medical care. However, the Greek authorities did not intervene or rescue the asylum seekers. The aforementioned 62 asylum seekers were 16 people out of the 37 refugees of the A.D. and Others v. Greece, together with 7 out of 12 applicants in S.S. and Others v. Greece (21039/22) and the 39 applicants of the F.R. and Others v. Greece case (23128/22). 64 65 Application no.21039/22 S.S. and Others v. Greece, Application no 18940/22 A.D. and Others v. Greece, Application no 23128/22, F.R. and Others v. Greece. 66 34 Applicant in the S.S. and Others v. Greece case before the ECtHR. AT EUROPE’S BORDERS: BETWEEN IMPUNITY AND CRIMINALIZATION