The killing shot hit the 22-year-old in the back, just below the shoulder blade, the autopsy report shows. He also had three bruises from rubber bullets. 

- We did not use sharp weapons. These were just police methods, replied Greek civil justice minister Michalis Chrisochoidis during an EU committee meeting on Monday. But Forensic Architecture's mapping indicates that the shot that killed the 22-year-old must have come from the Greek side of the border. 

Using video footage from cell phones, geolocation data and satellite imagery, they have created a meticulously accurate timeline of the course of events, with a reconstruction of the crime scene and the surrounding landscape in 3D model. Near the scene where the 22-year-old was being shot, there were Greek soldiers captured on film by cell phones.

It is unlikely that the shots came from Turkey

The possibility that the shot would have come from Turkish security forces is thoroughly investigated but seems highly unlikely according to the analysis.

Forensic Architecture has received a great deal of attention for previous investigations into human rights violations. Their survey of the notorious Syrian Saydnaya prison together with Amnesty made torture and extrajudicial executions known to the outside world.

In 2017, the group's investigation became a turnaround in a German court case of neo-Nazis as murdered immigrants, where Forensic Architecture could reveal a false testimony by a German intelligence officer. Forensic Architecture's latest investigation, about the murder of the 22-year-old Syrian man at the Greek-Turkish border, is just one of a series of reports accusing Greece of violence against refugees and migrants in recent months. In May, Der Spiegel presented a report on a Pakistani man shot dead at the Greek-Turkish border in March. The UNHCR recently called on Greece to investigate the details of illegal rejections, so-called pushbacks, both on land and at sea.

Sweden calls on Greece to take action

EU Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson has urged Greece to get to the bottom of the data.

 "I urge the Greek authorities to follow up on all reports of illegal activities and take the necessary measures," Ylva Johansson said in an EU committee meeting on Monday. 

"Fake news" replied Greek government officials who categorically deny all allegations of illegal practices at the border with Turkey in recent months.