March 29, 2021
Refugees
Authorities at the Athens international airport arrested nine Syrian nationals with forged travel documents. The group dressed in sports outfit was posing as a volleyball team. According to police, the nine young men had fake identity cards of a foreign country. They wore matching sports uniforms, to look like a …
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March 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Refugees
Covid-19 vaccination of refugees and migrants staying in camps on the islands of the eastern Aegean will start in May, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Sunday. In an interview with state-run news agency amna, he added that “he sees no reason” to do it earlier. Mitarakis said that the …
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March 10, 2021
Refugees
Greece’s fire department says three migrants have been found dead following a fire in an abandoned building in the center of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. The three men, believed to have been from Algeria, had been living on the third floor of the abandoned building. Firefighters said the …
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February 20, 2021
Refugees
Greece filed a request with Frontex and the European Commission for the immediate return of 519 migrants to their countries of origin, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Friday. In a follow-up request for the return to Turkey of 1,450 migrants living in hotspots on the Aegean Islands, Greece also …
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January 19, 2021
FEATURED, Refugees
One migrant died when a boat from Turkey dumped a group of 27 people at a remote beach of the island of Lesvos in the early morning hours of Tuesday. The man from Somalia who had underlying health problems most likely died due to the icy cold. The boat reportedly …
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December 3, 2020
Greece
Greek Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson signed a memorandum of cooperation for the construction of a new reception centre for migrants and refugees on the island of Lesvos. The new reception centre will be built with the cooperation of the Greek …
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December 2, 2020
Greece
Two women are missing and 32 people, among them three children, have been rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants sank or overturned off the island of Lesvos on Wednesday morning. 15 men, 14 women and 3 children were located off Palios by Mandamados during a routine patrol of the Greek …
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November 27, 2020
Refugees
Refugee and migration flows to Greece dropped 74%pct in the first ten months of 2020, compared to flows registered in the same period in 2019, says a report released on Thursday by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Some 17,000 crossings into Greece were recorded between January and …
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November 19, 2020
FEATURED, Greece
Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee calls on Greece to reform its immigration detention system and stop pushbacks. In a report published on Thursday, on a rapid reaction ad hoc visit to Greece in March 2020, the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee (CPT) once again urges the Greek authorities to change …
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November 8, 2020
Refugees
One child died and six people are missing after a boat carrying migrant and refugees form Turkey to Greece capsized near the island of Samos early Sunday. 17 people have been reportedly rescued. According to media, the Greek Coast Guard recovered the body of the child from the sea area …
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September 18, 2020
weather
A boat carrying migrants and refugees has come in distress off western Peloponnese as Medicane Ianos strikes the area, making the Search and Rescue operation impossible. There are reportedly some 50-55 people on board. One of the passengers has called the emergency international number <112>. Coast guard boats set for …
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September 14, 2020
Refugees
An search and rescue operation by air and sea for survivors of a migrant boat sinking was under way still on Tuesday off the southern Greek island of Crete. So far, 57 people have been rescued, so far, while the rescue operation continues in search of missing boat passengers. 4 …
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August 26, 2020
Refugees
In a large Search and Rescue operation, the Greek Coast Guard and the Navy managed to rescue 96 people from a sinking boat that was transferring refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece. It is believed that the boat was carrying over 100 people. Among them there were 10 children …
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August 13, 2020
Politics, Refugees
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has blocked individual German states from rescuing refugees from Greek refugee camps. The state governments are up in arms and are considering legal action. Several of Germany’s 16 states are considering banding together to defy the federal government’s plan to block them from bringing in refugees …
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August 11, 2020
FEATURED, Refugees
An incident with migrants attempting to cross into Greece from Turkey occurred near the island of Rhodes in the early morning of Tuesday. According to the Greek Coast Guard, warning shots were fired to prevent the boat from entering Greece. On the other side, the Turkish Coast Guard says that …
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August 10, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced 126 new confirmed coronavirus case and one more death on Monday evening. Even though the daily rate decreased compared to Sunday’s top record of 203 new cases, the number of intubated patients has increased to 24 from 22 a day earlier. An epidemiologist told Alph aTV …
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August 5, 2020
Very Mix
Seven people were killed and five were injured early Wednesday morning when a vehicle crashed into the concrete base of a toll booth under construction on the Egnatia Odos highway, in Ardanio, northeastern Greece. The accident occurred on a road section near the town of Alexandroupolis. Police was informed about …
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July 21, 2020
Refugees
Nearly 100 underage migrants with health issues and their families currently in Greece will be relocated to Germany on Friday, following an agreement in March, Berlin said on Monday. A spokesperson of Germany’s federal Interior Ministry said on Monday that their countries of origin include Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and the …
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July 13, 2020
Refugees
Greece’s Coast Guard continues Search and Rescue operation on Monday morning, after a boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized North-West off the island of Crete on Sunday afternoon. Only survivor is, so far, a 25-year-old Algerian national who has been transferred to the hospital in Chania. According to his testimony, …
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July 5, 2020
Refugees
Greek authorities have extended the lockdown in all refugee camps for two more weeks, until July 19, 2020. The joint ministerial decision on Saturday comes more than two months after lifting restrictions for the general population and just four days after the country opened wide its gates to international tourists. …
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