Link: https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/02/kke-new-crime-with-15-dead-migrants-bears-stamp-of-eu-and-bourgeois-governments-of-greece-and-turkey.html

15 dead migrants: A crime bearing the stamp of the EU and the bourgeois governments of Greece and Turkey

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the KKE,  speaking on 4
February 2026 in the plenary session of the Greek Parliament during the
debate on the bill of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the
“promotion of legal migration”, demanded that responsibility be
assigned, those guilty be punished and a full investigation be carried
out into the real circumstances of the tragedy in Chios.

The incident
 occurred late on the night of 3 February and resulted in the deaths of
15 migrants and refugees.

He stressed that this was not an isolated incident, as the government
is trying to present it, but the outcome of the direction of the
policies being pursued and the corresponding orders, which prioritize
repression and refoulement rather than rescue, as was clearly
demonstrated by the deadly shipwreck off Pylos in 2023.

As he pointed out, the incident once again disproved the government’s
claims of good cooperation with NATO ally Turkey on migration, as well
as the alleged reduction in migration flows in contrast to Libya, which
is allegedly responsible for the arrival of migrants in Crete. There,
the government plans to build detention centres instead of shelters for
the uprooted.

D. Koutsoumbas condemned both the policies of repression against
refugees and migrants —also driven by racist logic— and the policies
aimed at attracting workers, stressing that they are all forms of
selection that regulate migration flows based on the needs of capital.

Referring to the bill, he stated that it reflects a deeply
class-based policy against the working class, as it promotes so-called
legal immigration policies while effectively legalizing official slave
trade. Under this framework, foreign workers will come to Greece to work
without their rights being safeguarded and will be treated as human
commodities.

A mobilization against this deadly tragedy was held on 4 February
2026 by the Chios Regional Committee of the KKE. Chanting slogans such
as “The imperialists are redividing the world, carving out borders with
the blood of the peoples” and “They have turned the Aegean into a sea of
death, no to the wars of the imperialists”, the demonstrators marched
to the port, where they threw flowers into the sea in memory of the 15
victims.

inter.kke.gr

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