TALLINN - The ESTPOL3 police team of the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board flown to Greece on Saturday started escorting migrants to be sent back to Turkey onto ships early on Monday, April 4.
“Yes, absolutely. We were there first with the Latvian and Lithuanian teams,” the head of the police unit, Toomas Malva, said when asked by BNS if they took part in putting people on the first boat to take migrants back to Turkey. He said about 150 immigrants had been sent back.
Malva said there was no need to use force. “There was no need to, and rat...
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