Greece

Another car crash involving illegally smuggled migrants took place in Greece's Evros region on Saturday. According to initial information from the local police, a vehicle packed with illegal migrants overturned near the town of Kornofolia, close to the Greek-Turkish border. Following...

According to the Hellenic Police, five members of a criminal group that was acting on smuggling illegal migrants who live in Greece were caught in Thessaloniki's suburb of Pylea. The five men, aged 25, 26, 33, 36, and 38 years...

Four people convicted in Greece of running an international migrant smuggling outfit, have been sent to jail for 1,400 years. The convictions follow an international police operation which saw 112 migrants rescued from a cave and farm buildings in southern...

German police have claimed Greece is one of the most important entry points for irregular migrants and people smugglers. The online version of Der Spiegel magazine has quoted from a domestic police report which claims: "Very often the road for...

A court in northern Greece has sentenced 23 people to prison terms ranging from eight to 1,489 years for smuggling Iraqi and Syrian refugees into the country from the Turkish border in 2015 and 2016. The Thessaloniki court imposed the...

An inspection carried out at the port of Chios by members of the Special Missions and the Port Authority Security Office, identified two transport pallets carrying 8 jars full of antiquities, just before being loaded onto a passenger ferry boat....

A people-smuggling network based in Athens that tried to get Albanian migrants into the UK, has been busted by the Greek police, in cooperation with Albanian and UK authorities. The gang provided Albanian migrants with fake Greek and Cypriot passports, in an...

Greek police say they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who smuggled 49 migrants through Greece's land border with Turkey. The arrests of the traffickers, six Bulgarians, a Syrian and a Pakistani, were made Saturday in northeastern Greece, most close to...

A court in southern Germany has convicted three Syrian men over the drowning deaths of 13 migrants off the coast of Greece, in Lesvos island, in September 2015. Prosecutors accused the men of "professional smuggling of people resulting in death." The...

Border police in Florina and Kastoria have arrested more than seven Albanian nationals in the last month for illegal smuggling in the Prespes region, confiscating more than 200 kilos of contraband goods. Instead of the usual drugs or cigarettes,...

Hellenic Police on Saturday arrested three men at Grevena, northwestern Greece, for illegal possession of antiquities of particular archaeological and scientific value. According to the Athens News Agency, the three men, 42, 52 and 63 years old, had in their...

On Monday the online Turkish news source trt.net.tr reported that the Turkish coast guard had intercepted two vessels that were carrying some 260 migrants headed for Greece. There were 112 refugees, including 57 children onboard a vessel disembarking from the...

Hundreds of refugees are being pushed back and many are being arrested at Evros, Greece's border with Turkey which is also the shortest and safest route for refugees into Europe. "Following the failed coup in Turkey, the migration flows...

Traffickers have found new routes to carry migrants to Greece, as indicated by the large number of people who have entered the country from different spots, making registration procedures more difficult. In an attempt to circumvent the registration hot spots...

Human smugglers trying to convince refugees and migrants to make the dangerous journey to Greek islands are up to new tricks. Taking advantage of the confusion caused in the row between Turkey and the European Union over the implementation...