A Greek court on Tuesday dropped charges against nine Egyptians over one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks in which rights groups said they had been made scapegoats for the failures of the Greek coastguard in the deaths of more than 600 people. The hearing in Kalamata, southwestern Greece, finished in just over three hours. The state prosecutor accepted the defence argument, urged the court to drop the charges and the nine were acquitted. The suspects were detained hours after the rusty and overloaded trawler Adriana sank on the night of 13–14 June last year. It was carrying more than 750 people, according to the United Nations, but only 82 bodies were fo
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