Abrupt cessation of all communication: The last communication of the lawyers with the Turkish asylum seeker took place on 7 July at 13:38 when the communication with her was abruptly interrupted. While speaking on the phone with her, the lawyers heard a male voice speaking in poor Turkish with a Greek accent. The lawyers heard the asylum seekers repeatedly and desperately asking: “Will you take us to the police station?” The man replied, “Yes, yes, come on”. Immediately afterwards, the communication with the asylum seeker was interrupted, as her mobile phone was switched off. The lawyers had lost contact with the group. The Greek authorities did not respond to the written intervention. The lawyer repeatedly contacted the authorities in order to find out whether the Turkish asylum seeker had been located and arrested or not. The lawyers communicated via telephone with the Police Directorate of Orestiada, the Integrated Border Management and Migration Centre of Orestiada of the Greek Police and the Border Guard Stations of Orestiada (Neo Cheimonio), Kyprinos and Didymoteicho. The Greek authorities replied orally that they were aware of the GCR intervention, but the asylum seeker had not been detected by the police authorities. The Police Directorate of Orestiada informed the lawyers that even though they had conducted a search and rescue operation, they were unable to locate the asylum seekers. All Border Guard Stations informed GCR by phone that they had not made any arrests of Turkish nationals on that day. The following day, the lawyers once again contacted the Greek authorities, who informed them that the asylum seeker had not been arrested. Granting of interim measures by the ECtHR: On 7 July, a request for Interim Measures was submitted to the ECtHR and granted the following day. The Court indicated to the Greek Government, “that until further notice, the Applicants should not be removed from Greece and be provided with food, water and adequate medical care as needed”. After numerous attempts to contact the Turkish asylum seekers, on 9 July the lawyers were informed by relatives of one of the asylum seekers that all members of the group had already been pushed back to Turkey on 7 July. Unofficial arrest and detention in Greece: After crossing the border to Greece on 7 July, the Turkish asylum seeker waited for about 4 hours. Thereafter, she started walking towards the nearest police station. After a while, she was unofficially arrested by a Greek police patrol. They took her to an unspecified police station, where she remained illegally detained until 20:00, when the illegal and forced repatriation (pushback) began and she and other asylum seekers were transferred by police officers to the border. She was handed over by police officers to an unidentified group of armed men with full face masks, who were obviously acting in collaboration with the Greek authorities. The armed men illegally confiscated her personal belongings and money and put her with other asylum seekers in a boat. In the middle of the river, they threw all the asylum seekers into the water. AT EUROPE’S BORDERS: BETWEEN IMPUNITY AND CRIMINALIZATION 31