Greek Coast Guard

A speedboat with 16 undocumented migrants on board was located early Saturday by a Greek Coast Guard patrol vessel in the sea region of Oinousses, Greece.  When the Turkish captain and trafficker noticed the patrol vessel,  he rammed it and...

A large-scale operation is under way by Greek and American authorities for the dismantling of a large heroin distribution network.  The Greek Coast Guard and Police in collaboration with the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been conducting raids on several properties...

On Tuesday morning, June 10, the Greek Coast Guard collected 17 immigrants from the sea, in the northeast of Farmakonisi. The immigrants had no legal documents in their possession. The immigrants jumped in the water after their boat flooded and...

]Greek coast guards rescued and arrested sixteen migrants off the island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. Greek authorities were also able to capture the person who was trafficking migrants within the country’s borders. The sixteen migrants had no documents and are...

Late on Monday, May 19 Greek coast guard officers located and arrested undocumented migrants at the beach of Psalidi in the remote island of Kos. According to the coast guard report, some locals called the coast guard authorities Monday evening...

Figures from the Greek Coast Guard released on Friday show 142% more immigrants arrived during the first four months of 2014 than in the same period last year. Figures show that a total of 4,363 would-be migrants were stopped by the Coast Guard...

Greek coast guards have rescued another 24 migrants fighting for their lives in Turkish waters, a day after the tragic death Monday of 22 illegal immigrants in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the coast of Samos. The 22 men and two women,...

The Greek coast guard, early on Monday morning, launched a rescue operation off the coast of the island of Samos, northeastern Aegean Sea, Greece, after two boats carrying migrants capsized.  Twenty two people four of which were children, lost their lives, while...

This morning, Greek Coast Guard authorities mounted a rescue operation after receiving an SOS signal on Sunday, sent by a boat carrying illegal immigrants. The rescue mission successfully came to an end on Monday afternoon, with the Coast Guard rescuing...

On Friday, March 7, a Greek Coast Guard patrol boat rescued twenty-one illegal immigrants in the sea area of Sikamia in Lesvos island, western Greece. According to sources, among the survivors was the 37 year-old smuggler who was arrested on...