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Greek trial of 24 rescuers who saved migrants in Med begins
4 years ago(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 19, 2019, an inflatable boat with 47 migrants on board is pictured while being rescued by the Dutch-flagged Sea Watch 3 off Libya's coasts. - Berlin-based company "Mimycri" recovers inflatable boats, abandoned on the shores of Chios and the near-by island of Lesbos, which both bore witness to the 2015 refugee crisis when hundreds of thousands of refugees landed on Europe's beaches. The fabric from rubber dinghies is transformed by refugees into different sorts of bags, sold on the internet. (Photo by FEDERICO SCOPPA / AFP)
A group of 24 volunteers have gone on trial on the Greek island of Lesbos more than four years after they were arrested for carrying out-migrant rescue missions off Greece.…