FrontEx Leijtens promises to change internal culture in three years
propagandaAfter spending two years in his post, the Officer of the FRIST HANS Hans Leijtens explains to the eurono to change the organization’s culture in the three years he left until the end of his mandate.
It considers that internal transparency is “essential”, and in the face of the current trend in the United States, FrontEx must enhance gender diversity and identity.
“It is a matter of employment, as it is a fair organization, a diverse organization, whether in sex or nationalities,” says “Europe conversation.”
“It is very difficult to change culture, but I think we are taking steps towards it. Certainly it is necessary for the remainder of the mandate, which is another three years, to change this fact.”
For several years, FrontEx was synonymous with spreadThe policy that is to return to the usual migratory ships in the Mediterranean Sea outside the waters of the European Union, where people who cross Europe tend to have crowded or dangerously weak ships to drowning.
In 2022, a report issued by the European Frauds Office (OLAF) revealed that FrontEx was cover spread The illegal immigrants from the Greek coast when the organization was directed by the predecessor Legine, Fabrice Ligri.
Leijtens argues that FrontEx should work within a specific mandate, and that the state coast guard (Greece, usually) bears its own responsibilities.
“In fact, we see and note that there are usually accidents,” he says regarding the many occasions in which people in Europe or international waters drown.
In addition, he added that Greece prefers to fulfill international legislation in this regard. Currently, the Greek authorities are accused of 13 potential violations of human rights against FrontEx, and the organization has thought of reducing its financing.
“In Greece, I would like what will happen in all the countries we are cooperating with: that the standards be met and that if there is an accident, it can happen, it is properly investigated and that it has consequences.”
“Europe conversation” asks about the famous situation of Adriana, which caught and drowned in international waters across the Greek coast in June 2023, which ends the lives of 600 people. On this, he answered that FrontEx warned the Greek authorities of what was happening and that his agency was not responsible for the continuation of brutality.
He says: “I was in the control room when we saw the ship. That’s why I saw it with my eyes the day before it falls,” he says. “What can be done then, when we have a plane, informing, in this case, the Greek authorities about what we see. We cannot coordinate.”
However, there is always a suspended problem: if Fronex could do something else to save people’s life in danger, because Leijtens and his team were aware of Adriana.
“At that time, we had a drone and a plane and received instructions to go to another incident to the south of the island of Crete,” he says.
“We suggested that the Greek authorities send another plane twice. We have already shouted from the day following the accident. We suggested this to the Greeks and twice it was ignored by the Greek authorities.”
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