A Thessaloniki Airport-based policeman who reportedly charged third-county nationals €1,000 to allow them fly out of Greece on fake passports has been arrested and charged with facilitating illegal migration and membership of a criminal organization.
Five officers from the Didymoteicho Border Guard Department in northeastern Greece were arrested on Monday after a five-month investigation and charged with smuggling migrants from Turkey, authorities announced on Tuesday.
Specialized divers have recovered the dead bodies of four women and a man from a speedboat carrying migrants that sank last Friday northeast of Mykonos.
The body of woman, a passenger on a migrant boat that sank northeast of Mykonos on May 26, was found washed up on a rocky shore on the island of Antiparos on Tuesday.
Greek authorities said Monday they had arrested five police officers from a special border guard force on suspicion of working with smugglers to help migrants cross into the country from neighboring Turkey.
Insecurity, poor infrastructure and isolation are taking a toll on the will to learn of youngsters at refugee camps, according to educators.
Albanian police on Friday said they have arrested six migrant traffickers for allegedly organizing an illegal border crossing for people from Arab countries and opening fire on border police. No injures were reported.
A boat carrying about 500 migrants, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean, two charities said on Friday.
Three people have died and up to 12 others are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants overturned near the Greek resort island of Mykonos, officials said.
A prominent humanitarian group on Thursday blasted Greece over its treatment of asylum-seekers on the island of Lesvos, repeating allegations of illegal deportations back to Turkey and claiming authorities are using hunger as a weapon against some migrants.
Greece’s independent authority for transparency will investigate new reports that the authorities were involved in illegal pushbacks of refugees after the New York Times published a video allegedly showing the Coast Guard abandoning people at sea, many of which were children.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greek authorities were investigating a New York Times video showing asylum seekers being forcibly ejected from Greece but reiterated denials that his government knowingly carries out so-called pushbacks.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted Tuesday that Greece will be able to regain investment grade with a strong New Democracy government and that his “his victory over populism in Greece” serves as a lesson “for other liberal democracies.”
A 37-year-old woman who had absconded from a conviction of 18 years in prison for migrant trafficking was arrested in the western Athens suburb of Petroupoli on Monday, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Two female refugees were rescued in a remote location in the wider area of Kapi on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Sunday morning.
Tayyip Erdogan’s challenger in Turkey’s presidential race has sharpened his tone on migrants on Thursday, vowing to send all migrants back to their countries once elected in a May 28 runoff vote.
