MEDIA RELEASE FULL FRONTEX REPORT BY EU ANTI-FRAUD OFFICE
German newspaper Der Spiegel published the full report by the European anti-fraud office OLAF that documents Frontex’s involvement in, and failure to address, human rights violations at EU borders.
The report finds that Frontex repeatedly withheld cases of possible human rights violations from its own fundamental rights officer while misleading the bodies responsible for overseeing the agency. Frontex suspended its aerial surveillance to stop recording human rights violations and co-financed some of the Greek units that carried out pushbacks, and did not terminate the joint operations as stipulated by Article 46 of the Agency’s regulations.
The publication of the report by Der Spiegel comes months after the European Parliament had asked Frontex to publish the full report, to no avail.
MEDIA RELEASE FULL FRONTEX REPORT BY EU ANTI-FRAUD OFFICE
German newspaper Der Spiegel published the full report by the European anti-fraud office OLAF that documents Frontex’s involvement in, and failure to address, human rights violations at EU borders.
The report finds that Frontex repeatedly withheld cases of possible human rights violations from its own fundamental rights officer while misleading the bodies responsible for overseeing the agency. Frontex suspended its aerial surveillance to stop recording human rights violations and co-financed some of the Greek units that carried out pushbacks, and did not terminate the joint operations as stipulated by Article 46 of the Agency’s regulations.
The publication of the report by Der Spiegel comes months after the European Parliament had asked Frontex to publish the full report, to no avail.