163. The CPT wishes to make it clear that during the 2023 visit, its delegation heard many accounts that the Hellenic Coast Guard had treated the foreign nationals they intercepted at sea professionally and provided them with the support they needed to reach land safely. Such professional and humanitarian approaches are undermined by the actions of certain official actors who carry out violent, dangerous and illegal pushbacks of foreign nationals arriving in Greek territorial waters by boat. The CPT recommends that the Greek authorities take concerted action to ensure that the lives of foreign nationals arriving by sea are not placed at risk by being violently intercepted and refouled. 50