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Traffickers' Circuit Discovered in Santorini Police

The Santorini Police Department is currently under a scrutinizing investigation, after it was revealed that certain police officers and officials had been involved in a trafficking circuit, smuggling illegal migrants inside and outside of the country. In fact it was...

Athens Mayor Requests Aid in Dealing With Migrant Influx

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis asked the Greek government and the country’s European partners for help in the significant issue regarding the management of migrant arrivals. Thousands of illegal migrants and refugees arrive in Greece each year and according to...

2,000 Migrants Travel by Ferry from Mytilene to Piraeus

Around 2,000 migrants and refugees arrived at the Piraeus port on Sunday morning, June 14, with ferries from the Greek island of Mytilene. The migrants and refugees who mainly originated from Syria were trapped at the port of Mytilene and...

Migrant to Name Her Child After Her Greek Rescuer

An Eritrean migrant who was saved when the boat that was illegally transferring her and almost 200 more illegal migrants to Greece sank just off the coast of Rhodes, gave birth to a health boy on Thursday at Rhodes...

Greece Gets Emergency Funding to Deal with Refugee Wave

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed the emergency funding Greece will receive in order to tackle the refugee issue in the Mediterranean. In Thursday's emergency European Union summit the 28 member state leaders discussed the issue of the flood of...

Greeks Selflessly Rescue Migrants in Rhodes

Manolis Stavris, a man from Rhodes who has been working as a sailor all his life, participated in the rescue mission on April 20, when a boat carrying around 200 illegal migrants sank just off the island’s shore. The...

Tragedy with 200 Migrants Leaves 3 Dead in Rhodes

The Mediterranean has once again been turned into an underwater grave for at least three migrants. According to local media reports, a boat arrived on the Greek island of Rhodes earlier this morning, carrying more than 200 illegal migrants. The boat hit...

Illegal Migrants and Refugees Camp in Downtown Athens

Omonoia Square and surrounding streets in downtown Athens, Greece, turned into a camp for refugees and illegal migrants as hundreds were transferred in the capital from the islands where they landed. A large number of them are refugees from war-torn...

The Greek Govt Improvises on Immigration Policy

It would have been a news report: A few hundred more refugees and illegal migrants were set loose in downtown Athens. The story would read that after their boats sank in the Aegean Sea and were rescued by the Greek...

Greek Government Seeking Emergency Plan for Refugees

The Greek government is seeking an emergency plan that will employ abandoned army camps and empty state buildings to house refugees from war-torn areas who flood Greece. Greece will receive large inflows of war refugees within the next months and...