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Four Children Die After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greece’s Chios Island

The Greek Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of four children and a woman, all migrants, after their boat sunk in the sea off Chios Island on Tuesday. The Coast Guard authorities said it had rescued 22 people from a...

German Court Convicts Smugglers Over Migrant Deaths in Lesvos

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...

Human Smugglers Change Tactics to Convince Refugees to Undertake Perilous Aegean Crossing

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...

Refugee Crisis: Greece Unwilling to Conduct Joint Sea Patrols with Turkey

The Greek government is not open to conducting joint sea patrols with the Turkish Navy in the East Aegean sea. Kathimerini newspaper cites Greek diplomatic sources who claim there will not be such operations between the neighbouring countries in the face...

Smugglers Leave 70-Year-Old Disabled Woman Stranded

Cruel and ruthless traffickers smuggled a 70-year-old disabled woman who could not walk and a special needs person from Turkey to Greece and left them stranded on a rocky cliff, under the sun in the area near the Marathoundas...

Greek Coast Guard Pursues Vessel Smuggling Immigrants

A pursuit between a Turkish smuggler vessel and a patrol boat of the Greek Coast Guard on Thursday morning in the sea area of Oinousses, in the north-eastern Aegean Sea, led to the injury of three illegal immigrants, who...

Migrants Smuggled to Italy from Achaea and Ilia

An ongoing police investigation is targeting members of a migrant smuggling operation from Greece to Italy, using the coasts of Achaea and Ilia. A 32-year-old Greek has already been arrested, while police are looking for at least two others....

Human Smugglers Arrested in Greece

According to police authorities,two men, aged 58 and 49, and a 55-year-old woman, were arrested in Thessaloniki, early on Wednesday, charged with migrant-smuggling.The three suspects are members of an international ring that promotes the entrance and transport of illegal...