The BBC finds evidence an overcrowded fishing vessel was not moving for at least seven hours before it capsized.
Timeline of official coastguard account challenged
We have used video and photographs authenticated by BBC Verify, as well as court records and shipping logs, to analyse the movement of vessels in the area in the following hours. About half-an-hour later at 15:35 GMT, the coastguard helicopter found the migrant boat. Authorities have continued to claim it was on a steady course at the time.The movement of ships in the area where the vessel eventually sank suggests it was stationary hours before the shipwreck
Between 19:40 until 22.40, Greek officials originally claimed the boat was keeping a "steady course and speed". All of the shipping activity of the past seven hours between was focused around one specific spot, suggesting the migrant boat had hardly moved.
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