Greece submitted a request to the European Commission and Frontex to immediately return 1,450 illegal immigrants not entitled to international protection under the EU-Turkey Joint Statement. This is a very important development…
Tag: Lesvos
The island of Lesvos will enter a stricter six-day lockdown as of Wednesday, due to an increased number of coronavirus infections. The stricter coronavirus restrictions will be in place until 6 a.m.…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Portuguese Coast Guard today as he is in Lisbon. Mitsotakis was received by Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, the Chief of the Navy Antonio António…
Officers of the Coast Guard, the Navy and the Police were thanked by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during his visit to Lesvos for their contribution to protecting the country’s maritime borders. The…
The Greek Armed Forces are raising the level of vigilance over the Christmas holidays with an emphasis on volatile areas, New Post reported. In all the remote islands and rocky islets that…
Warning: Graphic content that readers may find disturbing. A medical examiner on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos is due to investigate whether a 3-year-old girl found unconscious and bleeding in a…
A huge fossil tree that was kept intact with its branches and roots, was recently found during rescue excavations carried out along the Kalloni-Sigri road, on the Greek island of Lesvos. It…
The Greek government yesterday accused Turkey of encouraging Somali migration through promotion campaigns and visa offers, and then allowing the migrants to continue to Greece. Athens has long accused Ankara of weaponising…
A memorandum of cooperation for the construction of a new migrant reception centre on the island of Lesvos by early September 2021, was signed by Greek Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi…
Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi accused the Turkish coast guard of refusing to respond to a distress signal sent out by a dinghy carrying 34 illegal migrants in the Aegean Sea Wednesday.
The action of a 45-year-old Canadian living illegally in a wooden shack in Lesvos, where 25 illegal immigrants and three German journalists were found, has come under the microscope of the police…
The mayor of Mytilene, Stratis Kytelis accompanied by the president of the Mytilene City Council, Demosthenes Hatzigiannis and Deputy Mayor of Culture, Panagiotis Tsakiris, attended Sunday’s commemorative event to mark the 108th anniversary of the liberation of Lesvos. The…
The Greek fleet, led by Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, started from the bay of Moudros in Lemnos on the night of November 7 and anchored in the early hours of November 8, 1912…
The 27-year-old from Tajikistan, who was arrested in the Peloponnese on accusations of being a member of ISIS, boarded a boat with other immigrants in 2017 in order to reach Lesvos from…
For some of the illegal immigrants on Samos, today’s 6.6 Richter earthquake was an opportunity to start looting at the expense of the local people. At a time when people were running…
Greek fishermen were harassed by Turkish fishermen in Greece’s waters. In particular, Turkish fishermen seem to be fishing even three to four miles just off the coast of Lesvos in an area…
The largest Greek island, Crete, has been added to the UK’s “travel corridor”. This means that any holidaymakers returning to the UK after 4am on Sunday 18th October, won’t need to quarantine.…
Five Greek islands have been added to the England’s quarantine exemption list, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Thursday. Arrivals from Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos, will no longer have to…
The Polish government sent 156 mobile housing units to Greece for the accommodation of refugees. They were received by Alternate Minister of Migration & Asylum Giorgos Koumoutsakos in the presence of Poland’s…
Photographs published today by Protothema, show that the burnt Moria refugee camp has turned into “garbage dump,” which residents of the area are calling a “sanitary bomb.” Less than a month ago,…