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Greek Court Gives 1,489-year Sentence to Migrant Smugglers

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...

Dozens of Migrants Land in Zakynthos Instead of Italy

Greek police arrested 69 illegal immigrants that were spotted wondering near Volimes, in Zakynthos island, in the early hours of Monday. The migrants were transferred to the closed gym of the town of Panagoula where they were given first aid,...

Refugee Creates Project 'Drones for migrants' to Help Save Migrants Crossing the Seas to Greece

Mehdi Salehi fled his native Afghanistan fifteen years ago to escape the Taliban and has now turned his attention to trying to help the migrants fleeing their countries using the popular Greece-Turkey route. When Mehdi reached the shores of Greece...

Migrant Traffickers Prepare New Route to Europe Through Italy

Migrant smugglers are preparing a new route to Europe that would transfer people by sailing to Italy, says Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. After the closing of the Balkan Route that refugees used to travel from Greece to central Europe...