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…
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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,…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to the tension in the East Mediterranean in a speech to the German Parliament but continued to insist on EU-Turkey cooperation. “One can not imagine how thin…
Some 700 migrants, mostly families or members of vulnerable groups, left Lesvos on Monday and boarded a ferry to the mainland. This was the first stage of the planned relocation of 2,500…
Greek police have dismantled an organized human trafficking network in Lesvos, in which a total of four Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are involved. A case has already been filed against 33 NGO members…
Unaccompanied child migrant uses foul language against Greeks while others trash hotel room (VIDEOS)
A video has emerged online of a child migrant staying in a hotel in Central Greece “expressing his gratitude” for being hosted in the country, after entering illegally, by using foul language.…
What some do not seem to realise, or simply turn a blind eye to as it does not suit their theories, is that the European Union, led by Germany, is NOT trying…
The European Commission on Wednesday revealed a new migration plan that stresses mandatory burden sharing and sending illegal migrants back to their home countries. Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, called…
Once again, illegal immigrants vandalised a Greek Orthodox church on the island of Lesvos. This is the second time this year the church of Agios Georgios has been attacked. Illegal immigrants destroyed…
Illegal expenditures, financial management problems, issues with the lack of quality in services provided to minors, issues in the legality in using premises, and observance of public hygiene rules regarding COVID-19, were…
Greece confirmed 243 positive covid-19 cases at the new temporary hosting facility for migrants and refugees at Kara Tepe on the island of Lesvos. According to the National Public Health Organisation, a…
Protesters in Germany’s capital on Sunday demanded that the government do more to help migrants stranded on Greek islands following a series of fires that devastated the refugee camp of Moria. The…
All the illegal immigrants who are in Lesvos today will have left by Easter 2021, Greek Minister of Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis told The Guardian. “They will all leave. Of the roughly…
European Council President Charles Michel said he refuses to “paper over this migration challenge,” after visiting Lesvos on Tuesday. He was accompanied by Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister, Notis Mitarachi. Michel said that the…
According to government sources, Germany wants to take in about 1,500 migrants stranded on Greek islands following a series of fires that devastated the refugee camp of Moria, Reuters reported. This in addition…
Almost a week after the catastrophic fire that turned the Moria migrant camp to ashes and left thousands of illegal immigrants on the street without shelter, the Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis…
Just over 6% of the 12,500 refugees who are homeless after the fire at Moria last week, have been rehoused in a new temporary facility under construction, authorities announced on Monday. By Monday…
Greek Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, called on illegal immigrants to go to the new structures that were erected following the burning of their accommodation on the island of Lesvos, to…
The revelations of the German artist, photographer and activist, Rebecca Somer, about the sad events that unfolded at the Moria migrant camp in Lesvos last week are shocking, Thestival reported. Somer is one…