Statewatch
The EU border agency, Frontex, is looking to buy a plane that will allow it to undertake night-time surveillance of the land border between Greece and Turkey as part of a pilot project that will run from July until September. Aerial surveillance imagery will be used to guide the actions of border guards stationed on the ground, in a region where intensified border controls have already led to the death of migrants attempting to reach Europe by increasingly dangerous routes.
Aerial surveillance
According
to a procurement notice posted at the end of March on the Frontex
website, the company that wins the contract "shall provide the
necessary technical equipment and staff to perform aerial
surveillance at the external EU land border between Greece and
Turkey," using a manned plane that will have the Democritus
International Airport near Alexandroupoulis as its base. [1]
