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Greece
Fire at Oraiokastro Migrant Camp Injures Three Syrian Refugees
A fire broke out from unknown circumstances around 4:45 am on Wednesday morning at the migrant camp in Oraiokastro in northern Greece.
Three Syrian refuges, two children and their mother, were injured when their tent caught fire. The eight-year old...
Greece
45 Migrants Rescued On Monday; Rescuers Searching Sea for Missing Vessel Carrying Migrants
A rescue operation is in progress in the sea region of Neapolis (southern Peloponnese) to locate a vessel transporting an unknown number of migrants.
Migrants aboard the vessel called for emergency help at 112 and asked for assistance late Monday evening.
The rescue...
Greece
Leros: Child Refugee Hit by Car Sustains Serious Injuries, Air Transferred to Hospital
A refugee boy, aged about six, suffered a serious head injury when he was hit by a passing car along with another underage refugee in a rural road in Leros on Tuesday evening.
According to the local police, the exact...
Greece
Refugees Riot After Migrant Woman and Child Die in Car Accident
On Sunday, Riots broke out late in the evening in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki outside of Oreokastro Migrant Camp which accommodates some 1,300 refugees.
According to Greek authorities, refugees who are residents at the center flooded the streets...
events
The Hellenic Rescue Team and Efi Latsoudi Receive UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award in Geneva
On Monday, Greek volunteers Efi Latsoudi and Konstantinos Mitragas on behalf of the Hellenic Rescue Team (HRT) became the latest in a long line of distinguished everyday heroes to receive UNHCR’s prestigious annual Nansen Refugee Award.
Both winners of the...
Greece
German Min De Maiziere Wants Athens to Implement Dublin Regulations
Once again the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere is insisting that it is time for Greece to implement the Dublin regulations, which states that migrants seeking asylum in an EU country from elsewhere must apply for asylum in...
Greece
Commissioner Avramopoulos Stresses that EU Member States Must Work Together to Resolve Refugee Crisis
"The walls and fences take us back to the deeply divided postwar Europe of the past," EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Sunday in an interview with Realnews newspaper.
Avramopoulos expressed his optimism over the refugee relocation program...
Crime
16-Year-Old Pakistani Boy Allegedly Gang-Raped in Greek Migrant Camp
According to police reports on Wednesday, a 16-year-old Pakistani boy was gang-raped by four other Pakistani boys aged 16 to 17 on Sunday at the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.
"The four minors, aged 16 to...
Greece
48 Migrants Rescued from Distressed Vessel Near Greek Island Zakynthos
On Monday, forty-eight migrants including 16 children were located by the Greek coast guard aboard a sailboat in the sea area between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, after transmitting a distress signal though Olympia radio.
Following the distress call and confirmed location, a freight vessel...
Greece
EU Slashing Funds to Eastern Europe to Increase Spending on Migrant Issues
According to Reuters, on Monday the European Union (EU) agreed to slash funding from EU's 2017 budget for poor regions to reallocate spending to manage the migrant crisis impacting the EU.
The result of slashing funds to poor regions of the EU bloc...